The coffee trade that went via Mocha had been going on for some time, and gave the imam's government increased revenues.
The inhabitants of this mountains survives mainly from the coffee trade.
The landscape has not changed much since the coffee trade exploded in the 1830's.
After college, he began a career in the international coffee trade.
Followed by coffee trade in the 18th century to 19th.
Votuporanga's history is closely linked to that of the coffee trade in Brazil.
During the rest of the 1840s, he diverted his other ships from the fruit trade to the coffee trade.
Then, starting in 1850, he commissioned the construction of five ships designed especially for the coffee trade.
He quotes an estimate by the World Bank that 500 million people are involved in the global coffee trade.
It remains a major center of the coffee trade.