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Sustainability
As Liam Worsley, Sustainability Manager Cafeology
Coffee Farming
at Cafeology Ltd, moves on in the coffee
process he has now integrated into Coffee production can be
Roberto Mata’s farm. broken into four parts:
Growing and harvesting are relatively

straight forward concepts. A farmer and their
workers will plant, grow, and maintain their
crop of coffee trees over a year (much like Growing &
any other commodity).

Then harvesting takes place over a three- harvesting
month period, when the cherries are ripe.
Wet milling is the first stage of processing
after harvesting. This involves the removal of
the cherry’s pulp and/or mucilage (but not
always), before drying in the sun and/or with
mechanical dryers.

After wet milling, the coffee is dry but still
covered in a hard parchment. Dry milling is Wet milling
the next stage of processing and involves
removing the parchment as well as classifying
the coffee in terms of size, density, colour,
and taste

Dry milling

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Exportation

Liam spreads the coffee for drying

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