red coffee fruit
the arena of coffee beans comes from the fruit, it has become a common agreement that the mature is the best. Therefore, the coffee beans through the process of red picking is always appreciated more expensive
Coffee beans are the seeds of coffee plants and are the source of the coffee drink The color of the seed is white and most of the endosperm Each fruit generally has two seeds. The fruit containing only one seed is called the peaberry and is believed to have a better taste Coffee processing before it can be drunk through a long process that is from the harvesting of coffee beans that have been cooked either by machine or by hand then done the processing of coffee beans and drying before becoming coffee . The next process is penyangraian with varying degrees degree. After penyangraian coffee beans milled or smoothed into a coffee powder before coffee can be drunk
To get high quality results, coffee fruit picked after cooked when the fruit skin is red. The time required from the formation of flower buds until ready to harvest is 8 - 11 months for Robusta coffee and 6 - 8 months for Arabica coffee. Some types of coffee such as coffee liberica and coffee grown in wet areas, harvest can be done throughout the year Robusta coffee and coffee grown in dry areas generally produce fruit in certain seasons so that the harvest is done on a seasonal basis. The coffee harvest season is May / June and ends in August / September
Flowering coffee plants do not simultaneously so that the ripe fruit is not simultaneously, therefore the fruit of coffee picked gradually. The red fruit is picked one by one by hand. Coffee fruit picking is divided into three stages namely
The tools used for harvesting the coffee fruit are small bamboo baskets or bags of easy-to-carry pandan leaves and burlap sacks. In high coffee plants and fruit is not reachable by hand it is necessary triangular ladder (ladder three or four stairs