BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): The Chiang Mai Agricultural Engineering Research Institute has introduced a handheld harvesting machine for coffee beans that works 1.8-2.04 times faster than a human picker.
The 12-volt battery-operated machine features two 10 cm-long rotating arms equipped with springs at each side to extract coffee beans from their branches, the institute, which operates under the Department of Agriculture, said on Tuesday (Sept 19).
