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length. This is a great opportunity and a new path to
adequate the coffee production systems, as well as to
improve the administrations of the farms.
Within the advantages of using manual har-
vesting aided by plastic meshes on the ground are: The yield will be
• Greater efficiency of the hand labour.
• Saving workers for the coffee harvesting. two or three times
• Less necessity of infrastructure in the farm, such
as accommodation and dining rooms facilities, etc. more than the
• Contributes with the control of coffee berry
borer control because at the end there are less fruits obtained by a single
left on the soil of coffee plantations.
For these reasons, the technological change should coffee picker.
be done firmly, in the way coffee growers and coffee
pickers know it and generate joint learning, with feed-
back in operative, economic and technical aspects Once the results of Cenicafé are complete, the
needed for the efficient harvesting of coffee fruits. Extensionists of the Federation have the responsibility
Aided harvesting with mechanical devices and plas- of accompany, advise, motivate and generate interest
tic meshes on the ground implies a cultural change as for the adoption of the plastic meshes on the ground
well, because it is needed at least a pair of meshes to and the mechanical devices for coffee harvesting, which
cover the aisles of the coffee plantation in order to receive nowadays continue in tests and adjustments for the
the fallen fruits, which in turn suggests couple or team team of researchers, under the coordination of the
work of persons who had always worked individually. Technical Chief Office and Cenicafe, of the FNC.

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