Brazil remains the world's largest coffee producer and exporter.
However, other crops are growing in importance. Farming in Brazil is going through a period of important change. Brazil has many different types of soil. It also has variations in climate hot and dry in the north east, warm ar very wet in Amazonia and along the edge of the Great Escarpment in the south east, and more temperate elsewhere along the coast and on the central plateau. As a result, Brazilian farmers can produce an enormous variety of crops.