Felix Adler

Seasonal Farmworkers

Fluter/n-ost

Harvesting apples at the biggest apple plantation in Saxony can be tough. The pictures are an insight into the labor conditions of seasonal farmworkers from Eastern Europe.

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Seasonal Farmworkers
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1 Jan Kalbitz, back the CEO of Sachsen Obst 2 Romanian farmworkers leaving their container housings 3 workers on the way to the apple plantation, 6 am 4 still life of an apple 5 day is rising 6 an apple tree 7 Romanian workers harvesting at the plantation 8 Michael Baumgarten head of Peco an initiative for fair farming 9 Romanian worker Marco Richard with his girlfriend and mother in law 10 weather conditions don't matter during the harvest season 11 some companies pay their workers badly, at another farm a worker only got 1200€ for two month of work 12 Workers arrive early in the morning with an old bus to an apple plantation in Sornzig, Saxony