Puerto Rico
Coffee production in Puerto Rico has a checkered history between the 18th century and the present.
- Production 2024
- 636 tonnes
- World rank
- #57
Varieties grown here
About
Coffee production in Puerto Rico has a checkered history between the 18th century and the present. Output peaked during the Spanish colonial rule but slumped when the autonomous island was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898 and the devaluation of the Puerto Rican Peso forced Puerto Ricans to sell their land and become wage laborers instead. In recent years, the gourmet coffee trade has grown exponentially with many of the traditional coffee haciendas of the Spanish colonial period being revived. Puerto Rican coffee is characterized as smooth and sweet.
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