Hungarian fruit and vegetable farms face closure over labor shortage
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🍒 Hungarian farmers are struggling to find enough workers to harvest fruit and vegetables, with more than $190 million worth of crops going to waste each year.
In Ujfeherto, an agricultural area in Hungary's north, the effect of a lack of labor is apparent – cherry pickers rushing to pick the summer harvest ahead of a storm that could ruin the entire crop.
The cherries are best picked and sorted by hand to provide the best quality to nearby factories, but that means working through the mid-summer heatwaves, with the temperature close to 40 degrees Celsius.
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