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     Most of the people in San Lucas depend directly or indirectly on the coffee harvest. Almost all the land close to the town is planted with coffee bushes.

     The harvest season starts in Guatemala at the end of October, but because of the altitude here, the major part of the harvest takes place in December. Most poor families take part in the coffee harvest. In the plantations they can gain $4.00 for every hundred pounds of coffee beans that they pick.

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  • Picking coffee
    How much coffee you can pick in a day depends on how the coffee has ripened. If all the beans on a bush are ripe ...
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  • Bringing in the harvest
    Workers (and growers) are paid by the weight of coffee beans that are picked. Between 4:00 and 5:30 pm the coffee has to be taken to the processing plant and weighed. In the plantation ...
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  • Processing coffee beans
    After weighing, the sacks are emptied into concrete pits. When they are nearly full, water is used to move the beans through various machines. The beans are shelled, and any sand or ...
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