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Once the coffee fruits turn bright red on the trees, farmers must pick them within two days, otherwise they will dry. After picking, farmers have 12 hours to send ripe cherries to the pulping station or coffee washing station. In remote villages far from the laundry, farmers have to dry the coffee beans themselves, peel them off and transport them to market. Visitors to small coffee farms can see coffee beans drying on tanned mats. However, farmers prefer to wash their berries and stand up to take advantage of the higher market price of "washed" coffee.

In the pulping process, the berries are soaked in water for 72 hours. The vats drain and the berries flow through the sluice to an open tray to dry. The berries should be dried in the sun for six days, but only between sunrise and 11:00 and between 3pm and sunset to avoid strong sunlight. After broken or dirty berries are discarded, coffee beans are bagged and trucked to Addis Ababa for sale at daily coffee auctions.

On the roads around Jimma, the traditional center of Ethiopia's coffee industry, many new coffee washing stations are springing up. However, too many washing stations in the area mean that many washing stations are underutilized. Competition between washing stations is so fierce that managers pay higher prices for berries and collect berries directly from villages, saving farmers the trouble and cost of sending them to the washing station. The price of this berry has risen from less than 1 bill (15 cents) per kilogram three years ago to more than 2 bills (30 cents) per kilogram this year. During the picking season, the station staff work for two months without rest days or holidays. Each workstation can process up to 10 tons of berries a day.

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