Ways of Coffea Harvest

Ways of Coffea Harvest

The growth and development of plants depends on soil fertility conditions with quality maintenance, depend also on karacter genetics, climate and weather conditions or limited. At the time of climate change past few decades, a very large effect on growth and development, including flowering and harvest time. Plants are well maintained kopiyang already producing at age 2.5 - 3 years dependent on the climate and the type of coffee plant. Robusta coffee plant began producing at the age of 2.5 years, while the coffee arabica start producing at age 2.5 - 3 years. Coffee plants are grown in lowland fruit faster than on the plateau.

Coffee plants gradually enlarged and the larger canopy, branches and more branches. Flowers and berries grow in the branches that are still active. Usually the plants aged 7-9 years. Coffee plants aged 7-9 years average production of 500-1500 kg of coffee rice / ha / year. Coffee plants are intensively managed to achieve production of 2,000 men-kg / ha / year. Coffee fruit begins to mature in April / May to September / October. In wet areas, the distribution of the harvest more evenly than in the dry areas, so that a longer harvest period (April to October). The yield of coffee berries, which is the ratio between the weight of coffee beans and coffee heavy logs vary depending on the type of coffee. The yield of coffee robusta 22 - 24%, coffee arabica 16-18%, and coffee Liberika 10 -12%.

Since the formation of buds ready for harvest  is 8-11 months for Robusta coffee and 6-8 months for Arabica coffee. Some types of coffee such as coffee and coffee Liberika planted in wet areas, harvesting can be done throughout the year. Robusta coffee and coffee grown in arid regions generally produce fruit at certain seasons so that seasonally harvest. In Western Indonesia plantations coffee harvest in May / June and ends in August / September.

Coffee is not simultaneous flowering so not  the mature simultaneously, then gradually picked coffee. Red fruits are picked one by one by hand. Picking ways  of cherries is divided into three stages, namely:

1. Preliminary Picking . Usually picking a preliminary conducted in February-March.

2. The Second Picking (harvest). Harvest starts in May / June to pick fruit that is red. The harvest lasted for 4-5 months with a turn picking planting 10-14 days. This means that within 4-5 months of the coffee fruit can be harvested every 10-14 days. Green coffee fruits at harvest were carried away to be separated from the red fruit.

3. The Third Picking (lelesan / racutan). Racutan picking fruit is harvested green coffee is done when the rest of the fruit on the tree about 10%. The trick with picking all the fruit remaining on the tree either red or green. Once picked, the fruit is red separated with green fruit. While lelesan is of collecting all the fallen fruit around good coffee fruit tree red, green and fruit is hollow so as not to be a pest host fruit powder

How to Harvest

. High on coffee plants and fruit are not affordable by the hands of the required triangle ladder (ladder-legged three or four). The ladder can help you reach the coffee fruit without damaging the plant canopy. Coffee berries are picked one by one by hand and put in a basket or bag. After a basket or bag is full, put the cherries in a burlap sack. Fruit red, green, and black put in different jute sacks.