Depending on the variety, it will take approximately 3 or 4 years for the newly planted coffee trees to begin to bear fruit. The fruit, called the coffee cherry, turns a bright, deep red when it is ripe and ready to be harvested. In most countries, the coffee crop is picked by hand, a labor-intensive and difficult process.
Selectively Picked – only the ripe cherries are harvested and they are picked individually by hand. Pickers rotate among the trees every 8 – 10 days, choosing only the cherries which are at the peak of ripeness.
Because this kind of harvest is labor intensive, and thus more costly, it is used primarily to harvest the finer Arabica beans. Bufcoffee processes those cherries neatly taken care of approximately 2,000t in 2016 with 3 CWSs and supposedly the number will increase to 7,000t by developing new 2 CWSs.