Today, 1 October, is International Coffee Day. The day gives global recognition to everyone working in the coffee industry, and its main purpose is to honour people at every level from farmers to companies.
The International Coffee Organization (ICO) declared 1 October International Coffee Day in 2014, and it was first celebrated in Italy in 2015.
Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer and supplies a large share of the world market. Vietnam is the second largest, accounting for about 20 percent of world output, and other leading producers include Colombia, Indonesia and Ethiopia. Brazil produces the most coffee, but people in Finland drink the most.
A ninth-century legend tells of coffee's origin: an Ethiopian goatherd named Kaldi noticed that his goats became unusually lively after eating the reddish fruit of a wild plant. Experiments with the seeds followed, and at some point people began boiling them to make a drink.
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Source: Banglavision
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