Picking of the ripened fruits is carried out through the manual selection of every single fruit, or establishing an average ripening point for all the fruit picking.

Picking is manually carried out according to the picking or stripping methods and that can last until the ripening end.

It consists in manually selecting every single fruit once it is perfectly ripened and this is the method that guarantees the best results.

The stripping is carried out in one interval: the responsible person for the plantation must decide an average ripening point, which, once it is reached, allows to tear off all the fruits from the branches.

In the end, the third method is the mechanical picking, which is practiced through a machine that shakes the plants to let the most ripened fruits fall down. This is carried out in the great plantations when the rows are quite distanced from each other.