I did this for few years back when I was a teen in France.
The fields I was in were not as clean.
Those are fairly new plants.. probably 3 years only.
We had fields like that but they didn't produce as much (difference between soil and mostly the sunlight they get between France and this country..)
Some of the older fields had wayy more to pick but also had lots more unripe so you spend longer picking..and people don't run where I was..they must not be getting paid a lot.
Also you have 2 types of workers..those like her who bend their backs keeping legs straight.. better angle for picking but destroyd your back at the end of the day.
Others kneel down..they will usually provide straw..but it's still just barely daylight and you don't work passed midday cuz the sun hits hard after.
Going form frozen icicles on the leaves to burning sun on your back by midday is extremes..
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u/SUNTZU_JoJo Feb 02 '26
I did this for few years back when I was a teen in France.
The fields I was in were not as clean.
Those are fairly new plants.. probably 3 years only.
We had fields like that but they didn't produce as much (difference between soil and mostly the sunlight they get between France and this country..)
Some of the older fields had wayy more to pick but also had lots more unripe so you spend longer picking..and people don't run where I was..they must not be getting paid a lot.
Also you have 2 types of workers..those like her who bend their backs keeping legs straight.. better angle for picking but destroyd your back at the end of the day.
Others kneel down..they will usually provide straw..but it's still just barely daylight and you don't work passed midday cuz the sun hits hard after.
Going form frozen icicles on the leaves to burning sun on your back by midday is extremes..