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
Arabic coffee Middle East, beginning in Yemen and eventually travelling to Mecca (Hejaz), Egypt, the Levant, and then, in the mid-16th century, to Turkey. Arabic coffee is an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Arab states confirmed by UNESCO. The word "coffee" entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch "koffie", borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish "kahve", in turn borrowed from the Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee, a brew”). The word "qahwah" may have originally referred to the drink's reputation as an appetite suppressant from the word "qahiya" (). The name "qahwah" is not used for the berry or plant (the products of the