Hi Hivers in Cinnamon Cup Coffee community, have you ever wondered where the coffee beans you use every day come from? Today I will reveal part of that story. This is the coffee harvest season at my place, and today I had the opportunity to visit a local people's coffee farm to see how they harvest their coffee.
I live in Mang Den, a mountain town in the highlands of Vietnam, where we grow most of our coffee in Vietnam. And as you know, Vietnam is the second largest coffee exporter in the world. Especially, Mang Den is located at an altitude of over 1200m above sea level, so this land is very suitable for Arabica coffee. Mang Den Arabica coffee has won the first prize for two consecutive years in the competition for specialty coffees in Vietnam thanks to the special weather and soil conditions of this land.
Talking about how to harvest coffee, currently, there are two main methods to harvest coffee in Vietnam. The first and more common way is mass picking. People spread a large sheet under the coffee tree and pick all the coffee berries from the tree regardless of whether they were ripe or not. In this way, people can save harvesting time because often they grow coffee on a large area. However, the quality of coffee beans from this method of harvesting is not high and leads to low purchase price of coffee.
The second way to harvest coffee is selective picking. People will use the baskets to pick only ripe coffee berries. This way, people will spend more time and effort, but the quality of the coffee beans will be higher and the price of coffee will also be higher. The people at the coffee farm where I visited today harvest coffee in a second way because their coffee farm is specialty arabica coffee, so they want to keep the best quality beans for the coffee lovers. I picked up some fresh coffee berries and tried them out, and they are really sweet and fragrant.
Only by visiting the coffee farm, I understand how hard the farmers work to produce the coffee beans we use everyday. Even though the weather in Mang Den is quite cold at present, the farmers get up so early to harvest coffee. When I arrived the coffee farm at about 7am, they were already there and doing their job. They also told me they work until dark because they worry that the coffee berries will get too ripe and fell on the ground. Normally, the coffee farm is far away from their home, so they carry clothes, food and drinks with them to be able to work on the farm one day. And they also use rustic motorbikes to carry the coffee back to their home after a hard working day. You see the farmers work very hard to produce the coffee beans. That's why I feel so grateful every time I have a good cup of coffee. I hope you do so.
Thank you very much for taking time to read my post. And I hope this post is suitable for this community and you like the post too. Have a nice day and have a good coffee!
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