How to pick coffee beans four methods of picking coffee beans

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Depending on the variety, it takes about three to four years for newly planted coffee trees to bear fruit. The fruit, known as "coffee cherry", turns bright crimson when it is ripe for harvest.

There is usually a bumper harvest every year. In a country like Colombia, there are two kinds of flowers every year, the main crop and the secondary crop.

In most countries, the crop is picked by hand, which is a labour-intensive and difficult process, but in places like Brazil, where the terrain is relatively flat, the coffee fields are large and the picking process is mechanized. Whether by hand or by machine, all coffee can be harvested in two ways:

Pick: all cherries are picked from the branches at once by machine or by hand.

Selective picking: pick only ripe cherries and pick them separately by hand. Pickers pick only ripe cherries in the woods every 8 to 10 days. Because the harvest is labor-intensive and more expensive, it is mainly used to harvest better Arabica coffee beans.

A good picker picks about 100 to 200 pounds of coffee fruit a day, so he can harvest 20 to 40 pounds of coffee beans. Each worker's harvest is carefully weighed every day, and each picker is paid according to the results of his or her work. Then transport the day's harvest to the processing plant.

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