Results: Coffee * 10 Steps from Seed to Cup

A coffee bean is actually a seed. When dried, roasted and ground, it's used to brew coffee. If the seed isn't processed, it can be planted and grow into a coffee tree. Coffee seeds are generally planted in large beds in shaded nurseries. The seedlings will be watered frequently and shaded from bright sunlight until they are hearty enough to be permanently planted. Planting often takes place during the wet season, so that the soil remains moist while the roots become firmly established. Have you ever visited a Coffee Plantation?

Depending on the variety, it will take approximately 3 to 4 years for the newly planted coffee trees to bear fruit. The fruit, called the coffee cherry, turns a bright, deep red when it is ripe and ready to be harvested. There is typically one major harvest a year. In countries like Colombia, where there are two flowerings annually, there is a main and secondary crop. In most countries, the crop is picked by hand in a labor-intensive and difficult process, though in places like Brazil where the landscape is relatively flat and the coffee fields immense, the process has been mechanized. Whether by hand or by machine, all coffee is harvested in one of two ways: Strip Picked: All of the cherries are stripped off of the branch at one time, either by machine or by hand. Selectively Picked: Only the ripe cherries are harvested, and they are picked individually by hand. Have you ever picked berries of any kind?

Once the coffee has been picked, processing must begin as quickly as possible to prevent fruit spoilage. Depending on location and local resources, coffee is processed in one of two ways. Dry or Wet, The Wet Method removes the pulp from the coffee cherry after harvesting so the bean is dried with only the parchment skin left on. First, the freshly harvested cherries are passed through a pulping machine to separate the skin and pulp from the bean. If the beans have been processed by the wet method, the pulped and fermented beans must now be dried to approximately 11% moisture to properly prepare them for storage. Were you aware of this process using Solar Panels prior to the survey?

Before being exported, parchment coffee is processed in the following manner: Hulling machinery removes the parchment layer (endocarp) from wet processed coffee. Hulling dry processed coffee refers to removing the entire dried husk — the exocarp, mesocarp and endocarp — of the dried cherries. Polishing is an optional process where any silver skin that remains on the beans after hulling is removed by machine. While polished beans are considered superior to unpolished ones, in reality, there is little difference between the two. Grading and Sorting is done by size and weight, and beans are also reviewed for color flaws or other imperfections. Beans are sized by being passed through a series of screens. They are also sorted pneumatically by using an air jet to separate heavy from light beans. Have you ever seen dry milling and sorting of coffee beans before?

Exporting the Beans: The milled beans, now referred to as green coffee, are loaded onto ships in either jute or sisal bags loaded in shipping containers, or bulk-shipped inside plastic-lined containers. World coffee production for example: data from the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service.: Global production in 2023-24 forecast to increase to 177.6m bags from 167.1m bags. Brazilian output projected at 70.3m bags and 73.1m bags in 2023-24 and 2024-25, respectively, from 63.7m bags in 2022-23. as of Dec 14, 2023 Were you aware of the volume of Coffee exports?