The reporter experienced the hardship of fruit picking: earn 60 yuan a day, pick a thousand pounds of peaches

Recently, a guy in Henan specially hired the elderly over 60 years of age to come to Taoyuan to work. Many netizens are curious about the work of these elderly people. What do they do in Taoyuan and what are their daily work? On September 18th, a reporter from the Yangtze Evening News Zi Niu Journal came to a Taoyuan on the banks of Disha River, Lulou Town, Peixian, Xuzhou City to become a fruit picking worker and felt the life of Taoyuan workers.

Workers are sorting peaches

Fruit picking workers are mostly women and elderly people

RMB 60 to 120 yuan daily salary

At 6 am on September 18, the reporter came to a Taoyuan on the banks of Disha River, Lulou Town, Peixian, Xuzhou City. The owner of Taoyuan Garden said that under normal circumstances, there were about 10 pickers per day, but because of the weekend, many workers went home to accompany their children. Only one 63 -year -old man drove an electric car to work in Taoyuan. The family of the garden.

"Let's have no requirements for workers' skills. As long as we work hard and do it honestly!" The owner told reporters that the picking workers are people in nearby villages, 8 yuan per hour, 8 hours a day, and you can rest when you are tired. Sometimes the salary is calculated according to the number of days, 60 yuan per day, and the peach is uniformly settled.

According to the owner of the gardener, there will be young people when they are bagging for peaches. They have high salary and can earn two or three hundred yuan a day. "Every year, fixed people come to pick the peaches. Go home for dinner. "The owner of the garden said that during this time, he sold more than 10,000 pounds of peaches per day, and one picked worker could pick more than 1,000 kg of peaches a day.

Chen Houwu, a fruit farmer who has grown Apple for 20 years in Xuzhou Fengxian, also told reporters that in mid -to -late November each year, some orchards will recruit a large number of recruitment and pickups. The daily salary is generally 60 yuan, 80 yuan, and 120 yuan. . "There is also a fruit farmer that the area of ​​fruit trees has been reduced a lot in recent years, and the amount of work has been relatively less. Now the skilled workers are 120 yuan per day, and they will control the rice at noon, but there are orchards do not want to use older workers.

Fruit picking worker

Picking peaches like jungle treasure hunt

Seeing Da Tao will show off excitedly

In the morning, there were a lot of water, and the trees were wet, like just over the rain. The reporter followed everyone with a red plastic basket and walked into Taoyuan. Nowadays, at the end of the peach picking, most of the small peaches on the trees, and there are only a handful of peaches that can be picked. A 63 -year -old aunt said: "Although picking peaches look simple, it is a living, foot power, and hand force. Generally, young people can't do it at all!" When asked what kind of peach she was going to pick, this Auntie laughed and said, "A peach that can't be held can be taken!"

After finally seeing a bright red peach on the top of the tree, it took a lot of effort to climb up the ladder and pick it up. The peach juice suddenly covered the right -handed finger. The original peach had been pecked by the bird, and some had rotten. I watched more than 20 peach trees back and forth, and only picked only five or six small peaches for more than ten minutes. It was also one -fifth of the dissatisfaction. The aunt on the side had already picked a basket of peaches, with more than 20 catties.

After a while, the aunt said loudly after seeing the reporter's dilemma, "Look at it, look above!" It turned out that there were some peach trees besides the top of the peach tree. Peach. She reminded: "The dried peaches cannot be taken, the cyan peaches cannot be picked, and the small peaches cannot be picked.

After the 80s, Wang Ren was the head of the family farm of the family farm of the family farm of Lu Lulou Town, Peilou Town, Xuzhou. He was known as the "Sister Taozi" and planted 100 acres of peaches with her husband. She also taught the experience to the reporter. Picking peaches needed skills. If she could not see a peach, she was pulled hard. Holding the peaches slowly, the peach would fall.

After picking them in accordance with their methods, the reporter really picked a basket of peaches in more than 10 minutes. During the picking process, if you see a big peach, everyone will be extremely happy, as if you find a baby to show off, "You see, the peach I picked is big!" In one day of picking, the largest peach weighs 1.9 pounds. The aunt who picked this peach said, "Hold up with two hands!" This peach is undoubtedly the "peach king" of the day.

Everyone watched the 1.9 catties of "Peach King"

There are less than 30 % of peaches that can be sold

The bad peach order of only a little skin is distressed

After picking, it is a physical work to carry the peach. In Taoyuan, peaches are generally transported through electric tricycles, but it is not a simple matter to transport the peach to the three -wheel car parking area. Although it is a distance of more than 10 meters, it is necessary to cross the soil and peach forest. Especially when he walked over the soil with more than 20 pounds of peaches, he would fall without paying attention.

The reporter found that the bad fruits on the ground were always distressed when picking peaches. Some of these peaches fall off naturally, some are pecking by birds, and some are damaged during picking. A aunt said, "The peach touched a little bit, and it was a pity to throw it away!" Sometimes the workers were reluctant to throw it away, and they would use the peach skin to eat. But workers couldn't eat so much, and many flawed peaches were thrown under the peach tree.

The owner of Taoyuan Garden said: "Although these peaches have broken a little bit, they can be eaten, but they cannot be stored for a long time, and they cannot be sold." Even if some picking workers can't bear to discard, they will pick these peaches. When they are transported to the sorting place, these peaches will still be discarded, otherwise other intact peaches in the fruit basket will be affected and rot. "Sister Taozi" Wang Ren said that the peaches that can really be sold out are often insufficient 30 % of the mature peaches. "Even if 30 % of peaches can be sold, it is already a big harvest!"

Yangtze Evening News/Zi Niu News Profile reporter Yan Chunxu Wen/Picture

Edit: Qin Xiaoyi

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