Coffee- Second Largest Commodity only to Crude Oil

Did you know that Coffee is the second largest commodity only to Crude Oil?
More then 100 million Americans drink it everyday and it is the second most
consumed beverage world wide! Thousands of people benefit from the production,
Marketing and sales of Coffee, the second largest commodity only to crude oil all over the world.

After doing research on coffee- second largest commodity being traded only
to Crude Oil, I’ve found that there are several legendary accounts of the origin
of the drink itself. One account involves the Yemenite Sufi mystic Shaikh ash-Shadhili.

When traveling in Ethiopia, the legend goes, he observed goats of unusual
vitality, and, upon trying the berries that the goats had been eating, experienced the same vitality. A similar myth attributes the discovery of coffee to
an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi and the Legend of Dancing Goats.
The story of Kaldi did not appear in writing until 1671, and these
stories are considered to be mythical.

It is supposed that the Ethiopians, the ancestors of today's Galla tribe,
were the first to have recognized the energizing effect of the coffee plant.
However, no direct evidence has ever been found revealing exactly where in
Africa coffee grew or who among the natives might have used it as a stimulant
or even known about it there earlier than the seventeenth century. The earliest
credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree
appears in the middle of the fifteenth century, in the Sufi monasteries of the
Yemen in southern Arabia.
From Ethiopia, coffee spread to Egypt and Yemen.
It was in Arabia that coffee beans were first roasted and brewed, similar to
how it is done today. By the 15th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East,
Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa. From the Muslim world, coffee spread to Italy,
then to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia, and to the Americans.

The introduction of coffee to the Americas is attributed to France through its
colonization of many parts of the continent starting with the Martinique and
the colonies of the West Indies where the first French coffee plantations were founded.

The first coffee plantation in Brazil occurred in 1727 when Lt. Col. Francisco de Melo Palheta smuggled seeds from French Guiana.
By the 1800s, Brazil's harvests would turn coffee from an elite indulgence to a drink for the masses. Brazil, which like most other countries cultivates coffee as a commercial commodity, relied heavily on slave labor from Africa for the viability of the plantations until the abolition of slavery in 1888. The success of coffee in
17th-century Europe was paralleled with the spread of the habit of tobacco smoking all over the continent during the course of the Thirty Years' War (1618–48).

For many decades in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Brazil was the biggest
producer of coffee and a virtual monopolist in the trade. However, a policy of
maintaining high prices soon opened opportunities to other nations, such as Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Indonesia and Vietnam, now second only to Brazil as the major coffee producer in the world. Large-scale production in Vietnam began following normalization of trade relations with the US in 1995. Nearly all of
the coffee grown there is Robusta.

Despite the origins of coffee cultivation in Ethiopia, that country produced only a small amount for export until the Twentieth Century, and much of that not from the south of the country but from the environs of Harar in the northeast. The Kingdom of Kaffa, home of the plant, was estimated to produce between 50,000 and 60,000 kilograms of coffee beans in the 1880s. Commercial production effectively began in 1907 with the founding of the inland port of Gambela, and greatly increased afterwards: 100,000 kilograms of coffee was exported from Gambela in 1908, while in 1927-8 over 4 million kilograms passed through that port. Coffee plantations were also developed in Arsi Province at the same time, and were eventually exported by mean of the Addis Ababa - Djibouti Railway.
While only 245,000 kilograms were freighted by the Railway, this amount jumped
to 2,240,000 kilograms by 1922, surpassed exports of "Harari" coffee by 1925, and
reached 9,260,000 kilograms in 1936.

Australia is a minor coffee producer, with little product for export, but its coffee
history goes back to 1880 when the first of 500 acres (2.0 km2) began to be developed in an area between northern New South Wales and Cooktown. Today there are several producers of Arabica coffee in Australia that use a mechanical harvesting system invented in 1981.

In summery, this little research on coffee, the second largest commodity only to Crude Oil, is being traded on the Commodity Exchanges all over the world.

This leads me to the Javalution Coffee Company which was founded in 2003 when 2 friends were seeking a way to stay fit, have more energy and have a simple way to achieve their fitness goals, all without undergoing major lifestyle changes. It was at that point that they had a “Javalution” and determined that there wasn’t a better product to do that with than something that many adults enjoy every day and can’t get enough of - coffee. The JavaFit product is the brainchild of Scott Pumper, who currently serves as the company’s President. Scott was intrigued by the explosive growth of companies like SOBE and the emergence of Vitamin Water in the fortified food category, and questioned why no one was doing this with coffee as a delivery system. This led to his collaboration with Jose Antonio, who as a Sports Nutrition Scientist developed the formula for perfectly blended gourmet coffee with scientifically proven fortified nutrients. This collaboration resulted in the creation of JavaFit!
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