Coffee in the 20 century
In the first years of the XX century, Brazil was the largest producer of coffee in the world. Today almost all coffee production comes from Central America, Brazil and tropical parts of South America. The global coffee production is estimated at around 100 million bags a year, with Brazil in first place with a quarter of total production, which is approximately 8.5 million bags.
The roasted coffee house was permanently replaced by the industrial product finished. In 1901 Dr. Sartori Kato Japanese introduced the first soluble coffee powder. In 1938 he founded the Nestle company for the marketing of soluble coffee (instant coffee).
The scale of use of coffee is reflected in the trend of consumption of raw coffee world in the last 250 years.
1750: 600000 bags, 1850: 4 million bags, 1950: 36 million bags, 1995: 94 million bags, 2000: 103 million bags.
The high demand for coffee has become a hot drink this article marketed in the second most important post-petroleum products. This trend was accompanied by the stages of overproduction, the burning of excess, the collapse of prices, the global economic crisis, consumption cadente during the two world wars and the creation of agreements to stabilize world coffee prices. In Germany after the Second World War, coffee became a symbol of economic reconstruction and the economic miracle. Drinking coffee was synonymous of being able to afford to buy things again.