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a worker raking a field of coffee cherries drying in the sun
October 1, 2020

Coffee Crop

A worker spreads coffee cherries to dry in the sun on a coffee plantation in Brazil. The March 1981 issue told the story of the whole coffee economy, nicknaming the crop "the bonanza bean."
Photograph by Sam Abell, Nat Geo Image Collection

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