Coffee beans are the pits of coffee cherries, which slightly resemble grapes. Coffee cherries mature over several months, after a flower has bloomed for about a month. During their maturation, the cherries progress from a bright green to pink, red, dark red, purple and, eventually, black. This process for Robusta Coffee varietals takes about five to six months.
Our Coffee cherries and blossoms grow on small evergreen trees that can grow up to 5 meters tall.
Every year we prune them back annually to between 1.5 and 2.5 meters, which is a comfortable height for picking.
Pruning annually also increases the trees’ yields.
This year the coffee output would be around 20 tons and we forecast 30 tons 2021.