[1] Initially, coffee was grown in areas where soil and weather conditions suited such growth and on a small scale.
[3] This was followed by the Banco Agricola of Paraguay providing funds to several government agencies to freely distribute the plants to farmers for cultivation.
[2] Thousands of trees were planted in plantations in the mountains of Alto Paraguay, not far from the city of Asunción.
[5] In the 1970s, the main coffee producing areas were noted to be the Amambay, Alto Parana, and Canindeyú departments.
[7] In 2013, coffee production was 382 tons from an area of 69 hectares (170 acres) with yield level of 12,993 hectograms per ha, and its world share was negligible.