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Knowing when’s best to harvest

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Because it involves selecting ripe coffee cherries, harvesting is essential to producing high-quality coffee and ensuring a truly exceptional cup.

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Mai Thi Nhung

Find out how Nhung knows when’s the best time to pick the perfect coffee bean.

The perfect pick

Farmer Mai Thi Nhung knows her farm inside out. She keeps a close eye on her coffee cherries, watching as they change colour, grow and ripen. “If we pick ripe beans, the taste of coffee will be more delicious,” she says. She picks with great care, preserving the branches so that they bear fruit the following year.

Always growing
Nhung’s experience comes from many years spent caring for her fields. After harvesting, she dries the coffee cherries, before taking them to be processed into coffee beans. She then cuts off dry branches, waters, weeds and prunes, prepping the farm for the next harvest. “My hopes for the future are that my coffee plants will develop every day,” she says.

A sense of place

Being outdoors makes Nhung happy. “What I like best is the sunny weather,” she smiles. But coffee isn't just her family’s major source of income, it's also her passion so she invests time and effort to stay abreast of new developments, innovations and techniques. She’s constantly looking to grow her knowledge, and her potential around coffee, “I am learning more about the taste and flavour of coffee all over the world,” she says, “Because maybe someday I will become the very best coffee blender.”

Responsibly Sourced Coffee is traceable to the farms – like Mai Thi Nhung's farm – or groups of farms where it is harvested from. It is then produced in accordance with our Responsible Sourcing Standard.

https://www.nescafe.com/sourcing-coffee-responsibly,