Good coffee beans can be sold at a good price:-
Bad coffee beans cannot be sold at a good price.
If you want to earn a lot of money, you must sell good coffee beans.
To get good coffee beans, you must harvest the berries properly.
- Do not pick all the berries at the same time.
- Pick only berries that are quite ripe: those which are red.
- Leave on the tree any berries that are not ripe, that are still a little green.
- Pick the remaining berries when they are ripe.
- You should harvest three or four times a year.
When harvesting, sort out the good berries and the bad berries:-
Burn dry berries, black berries, berries that have dropped to the ground, for they contain parasites which cause diseases.
In Africa yields are low: 100 to 500 kilogram of berries per hectare.
In South America yields are sometimes more than 1 000 kilogram per hectare.