Coffee production years after planting for a coffee plant to produce coffee beans that are ripe enough to harvest. The plant eventually grows small white blossoms that drop and are replaced by green berries. These green berries will become a deep red color as they ripen. It takes about 9 months for the green cherries to reach their deepest red color. Because this kind of harvest is labor-intensive, and thus more costly, it is used primarily to harvest the finer arabica beans. The laborers who pick coffee by hand receive payment by the basketful. , payment per basket is between US$2.00 to
Helen Berry Helen Berry Helen Berry (born 11 December 1969) is a British historian and Professor of British History at Newcastle University. She specialises in British history circa 1660 to 1800, with particular interests in social, cultural and economic history. Berry read History at Durham University from 1989 – 1992, and her doctoral research was at Jesus College, University of Cambridge 1995 – 1998, where she wrote a thesis on the history of coffee houses and the earliest London newspapers. In 2000 she was awarded the Royal Historical Society Alexander Prize for the paper ‘Rethinking Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England: Moll King’s Coffee