Introduction to the Variety characteristics of Brazilian Coffee Bean picking season-planting Environment Flavor description method

Introduction to the Variety characteristics of Brazilian Coffee Bean picking season-planting Environment Flavor description method

The vigorous production period of a coffee tree usually lasts about 15 years, and of course some trees are still fruitful for 20 or 30 years. As soon as the coffee tree loses its ability to bear fruit, it will be cut down on the spot and uprooted so as not to compete for nutrients with other trees that are still strong and can bear fruit. Coffee production is related to the species and growing environment of coffee trees. a coffee tree can produce an average of 5 pounds of coffee fruit a year and eventually harvest about 1 pound of dried coffee beans.

When the coffee fruit changes from turquoise to full wine red, it shows that it is ripe, but there are also some strange varieties, the ripe coffee fruit appears yellow. The coffee fruit looks like cranberries or cherries, but the shape is closer to the oval. Coffee farmers usually judge whether the coffee fruit is ripe by pinching the coffee fruit with the thumb and index finger. If the coffee bean is squeezed out with a gentle pinch, it proves that the coffee fruit is ripe. The ingredients left in the hand after the coffee beans are squeezed out are red peel and pulp. What is squeezed out is the seed coat and the mucus adhered to it. Inside the seed coat are two coffee seeds wrapped in translucent silver skins.

The number of coffee beans picked depends on a variety of factors, the most obvious being the height of the trees and the layout of the farm or plantation. On average, the average farm picker can pick 50-100 kilograms a day. However, only 20% of these coffee beans are real coffee beans, so each picker can only pick 10-20 kilograms of coffee beans on average. Coffee beans are packed in bags with a standard mass of 45-60 kilograms. As a result, it takes 3-6 days for a worker to fill a bag.

It has been calculated that the cost of harvesting a plantation or farm is half of the total cost of the year. In Brazil, people have tried many times to use mechanical picking to reduce these costs. The machine shakes branches across the coffee tree so that berries that become loose because they are ripe will fall into the funnel star. But this can only be done in places where natural conditions are better, and they need to be high-speed in advance, because the machine can only be used where the trees can be planted in rows and rows, and the coffee beans picked by the machine need to be checked afterwards to pick out the leaves and branches that have fallen in the funnel. It is troublesome to pick in this way.

In areas with relatively high elevations, such mechanical picking method cannot be adopted, and manual picking must be used, which requires a large number of seasonal workers. Pickers should also be careful not to pick unripe, bad or overripe coffee beans, as they will affect the overall quality of the coffee harvested. The original picking method ensures the quality of coffee bean picking to a great extent. Those coffee beans that are not so good are classified as "ordinary", "sour" or "fermented", and the last one is very bad.