Coffee Harvesting
Learn when coffee cherries are ripe and compare selective hand picking, strip picking, and mechanical harvesting methods.
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Coffee Harvesting Methods
Coffee harvesting is the moment when months of flowering, fruit development, pruning, rain, sunshine, and farm labor finally become a crop. The way coffee is harvested has a direct effect on flavor, defect rates, processing efficiency, and farm profitability. A beautifully grown coffee can lose quality if too many unripe or overripe cherries are picked,…