“One million tons of raw Coffee are landed and processed in Hamburg every year”

Best places of Earth being used for producing coffee

Allbusiness: The Port of Hamburg plays a central role in the worldwide coffee trade being Europe’s largest coffee importer and at the same time gateway for coffee exports into Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe, Austria and Switzerland. Well over one million tons of raw coffee are landed and processed for Europe’s “most important drink” in Hamburg every year. After crude oil, coffee is the second most commonly traded commodity in the world (measured by monetary volume)

Prabhupada, Vrndavana, September 5, 1976: I have studied very thoroughly that there are sufficient land still without any cultivation. In Africa I have seen sufficient land. But they are utilizing it for producing coffee and tea. No food grains. So these are the anarthas. Anartha. Unnecessary. People will not die without coffee and tea. But they have made the whole world self-dependent on coffee and tea, mercantile policy. There is anartha.

So anartha, if you want happy life, peaceful life, progressive life, then you have to curtail these anarthas. Anartha-nivrttih syat. Without curtailing these anarthas, unwanted things, you cannot become happy. So that is recommended here. Anartha-nivrttih syat saksad bhaktim adhoksaje. As soon as you become a devotee, all anarthas become immediately vanquished. Full Lecture