Coffee production in Cuba

Cuba is an island where people grow coffee beans! These beans are like tiny seeds that, when roasted and ground, make the warm, yummy drink called coffee. It's like magic for grown-ups! Cuba started growing coffee a super long time ago, even before your grandparents were born.

Long ago, some farmers came to Cuba from another island called Haiti because there was a big change happening there. They brought their coffee plants with them and started planting them in Cuba. At first, they grew coffee on flat land, but then they discovered that the mountains were even better for growing the best coffee beans!

In the middle of the 1950s, Cuba was like a coffee superstar! They were growing so many coffee beans that they sent over 20,000 big bags of them to other countries every year. That's enough coffee to fill up more than 1,000 school buses! It was a really important job for many people in Cuba.

Even though Cuba doesn't send as much coffee away as it used to, it's still special. Most of the coffee today grows high up in the Sierra Maestra mountains. It's a special place with the perfect weather for coffee plants. A company called Cubaexport helps sell all the coffee that Cuba grows.