Harvesting

• Coffee fruits should be picked as and when they become ripe to get better quality.
• Arabica comes for harvesting earlier since they take 8-9 months for fruit development from flowering while robusta takes 10-11 months.
• Picking is done by hand.
• The first picking consists of selective picking of ripe berries often seen in the outer portion of the node and is called fly picking.
• Thereafter, there will be 4-6 main pickings at 10-15 days intervals and final harvest.
• Stripping consists of picking of still remaining green berries on the plant.