Manual coffee manufacturing in Brazil
Paulo is the owner of a small factory in Matutina Minas Gerais, producing coffee for many years and distributing it in his little town, and nearby villages in the region.
Production
The coffee beans must be harvested, a process that is still manually done. Next, the beans are dried and husked using one of two optional methods. The dry method is an older, primitive, and labour-intensive process of distributing the beans in the sun, raking them several times a day, and allowing them to dry.
After that the beans get roasted, called singeing, placing the beans in a metal cylinder that is then rotated over gas.
