Selective weeding
The weeding systems traditionally used by farmers in the country’s mountain regions have been designed to uncover the soil with tools such as the hoe, the “gala,” the “gambia,” the machete, the scythe and, in the last 20 years, herbicides.
Pulping
Process to separate the coffee bean from the pulp. Thanks to the ecological wet milling technology Becolsub, developed by Cenicafé, in this process a minimum amount of water is used, and byproducts such as pulp and wastewater are used to convert them into organic fertilizers.
Mucilage-removing machine (“desmucilaginador”)
A device used in wet milling of coffee that removes the mucilage and washes and classifies the coffee bean.
Mucilage removal
Removal of mucilage from the pulped coffee bean.
Protected Denomination of Origin (PDO)
It ensures that the product has been produced, transformed and made in a specific geographical location. The product quality is closely related to the geographical environment (environmental and cultural aspects).
Demand
The quantity of an item that buyers are ready to buy at a set price in a given market at a certain time.
Tasting
Action and effect of tasting or cupping
Defoliation
Loss or fall of leaves. It normally occurs in many cases in the fruitful part of the branches during the evolutionary cycle of harvest.
Defects
Coffee is classified based on its qualities. Quality is a set of features of intrinsic components that determine the degree of acceptance of coffee within a comparable scale established by the consumer market. To determine quality, each of components that affect final classification must be assessed separately through physical processes or be analyzed with the senses. In this […]
PoS terminal
Compact device that, installed at a commercial store, allows transactions (via telephone network or IP via GSM, GPRS, Wi- Fi, etc.) with electronic or smart card.