It's mid November and coffee picking has started at Boikere and also at most estates where Arabica is grown. Yes the harvest times of Arabica and Robusta are not quite the same. The important point however is that harvesting of coffee in India is done by hand. There's a huge difference between hand picking and machine harvesting. The craft of coffee growing covers many aspects where skill influences quality of the product as well as productivity of the estate. Fly picking for example refers to the first pass of picking where berries that ripen early are picked. Pickers typically will…
