"So it may come as another surprise that in a year, a single coffee tree only produces enough fruit to make about a pound of roasted beans. Coffee beans are actually seeds that form in fruits that are often about the size and color of cherries. After taking several years to mature, coffee trees produce around 2,000 cherries a year. With two seeds per cherry, that's about 4,000 raw coffee beans per harvest season. Once roasted, that yields around 1 pound of ready-to-grind beans."
"Each year, farmers produce around 170 million 60 kilogram bags of green Arabica and Robusta coffee beans, according to the United Stated Department of Agriculture. Those 60 kilo bags are an industry trading standard and not what you'd typically see at the store. That works out to about 10.2 billion pounds of raw beans. Because coffee can lose about 15% of its weight when roasted, a back-of-the-napkin accounting means we're looking at around 8.7 billion pounds of roasted coffee beans from hardworking trees and farmers each year."
Coffee plants produce caffeine as a natural insecticide and supply a stimulant to about one billion drinkers, making coffee a Top 10 traded commodity. A mature coffee tree can produce roughly 2,000 cherries annually, with two seeds per cherry resulting in about 4,000 raw beans and roughly one pound of roasted beans. Global farmers produce around 170 million 60-kilogram bags of green Arabica and Robusta beans annually, equating to about 10.2 billion pounds of raw beans. Roasting reduces weight by about 15 percent, yielding approximately 8.7 billion pounds of roasted coffee each year. Coffee grows best in the tropical Coffee Belt.
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