The harvest in the region started last October (September in some warmer areas) and lasts until February, with a peak around this time of year. Even though the harvesting process can be mechanised under certain conditions, coffee cherries are still picked by hand in most countries. There are two major ways to pick the cherries. The first is strip picking in which all the cherries, ripe and unripe, are harvested at once by stripping them off the branches. This can be done manually or mechanically. Selective hand picking in Yunnan The second one is selective picking, which can only be done by hand picking. The pickers return to the same trees several times during the harvesting season, once about every 8 to 10 days, and pick only the ripe cherries. At the end of the season there is one final collection of all cherries left on the trees, regardless of the degree of maturation, the so-called sanitary harvest. Selective picking is much more labour-intensive and hence more costly. As a result it is primarily used to harvest the finer Arabica beans. For this type of coffee it is a first step in the process of producing a high quality coffee. It's also the way coffee is harvested in this region.
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