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The harvest time of coffee fruit knowledge of growing coffee beans

Published: 2026-04-04 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/04/04, The vast majority of coffee fruits are picked manually. In order to ensure the quality of coffee, pickers need to identify which fruits are suitable for harvest and pick them one by one from the tree, which takes a lot of energy and time. In this era when the tide of science and technology is sweeping in, such humane manual work is very precious. Due to different planting areas, the receiving time also changes.

The vast majority of coffee fruits are picked manually. In order to ensure the quality of coffee, pickers need to identify which fruits are suitable for harvest and pick them one by one from the tree, which takes a lot of energy and time. In this era when the tide of science and technology is sweeping in, such humane manual work is very precious. Due to different planting areas, the receiving time also changes.

Generally speaking, it can be divided into the following categories:

1. Areas north of the equator (e.g. Ethiopia and Central America)

It is usually harvested from September to November.

2. Areas south of the equator (e.g. Brazil and Zimbabwe)

Mainly concentrated in April or May, and the harvest period can be extended to August.

3. Equatorial regions (e.g. Uganda and Colombia)

It can be harvested all year round, especially those plantations that make good use of the advantages of different elevations to harvest new varieties of coffee every year.

The article is extracted from coffeet&i vol.46.May-June,2015.

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