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Timorese coffee cherry harvest and sort

Also known as kafé Timor-Leste

Timorese coffee cherry harvest and sort: photograph by GAB MEMAP, Ministro de Estado e Ministro da Agricultura e Pescas
Photo: GAB MEMAP, Ministro de Estado e Ministro da Agricultura e Pescas, Public domain, source on Wikimedia Commons

Pick only ripe red cherries, pulp, dry on the raised bed and sort defect beans from good ones before rain arrives.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Timor-Leste.

Origins

A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of Southeast Asia and the Islands.

Sources

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