Cultivated Varieties: Red and Yellow Bourbon, Mundo Novo, Topázio, Catuaí.
City: Araxá, Minas Gerais, size: 300 hectares
Mr. Antonio Francisquini is 86 years old, and he has several coffee farms, a total of 90 million coffee trees planted, he is one of the biggest coffee producers in Brazil.
In normal years, his average production is around 500 to 700 thousand 60 kg bags, considering all his farms.
He had some coffee farms in the state of Parana, an area of Brazil going South, and right now it is being changed into soya, corn, due to the extremely complex conditions to grow coffee there. And nowadays he grows coffee in the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia.
When he was young, he was a bus cashier (who collects bus tickets/money on the bus), then he became a bus driver and further a small coffee farmer, with just a few coffee trees planted.
Nowadays he is a reference in coffee culture due to his extensive experience, and he is known as a coffee baron of the 21st century, people in Brazil call him the King of Coffee (in the Portuguese language: Rei do Café), due to his knowledge, productivity, and quality.
