crop picking
Gathering ripe produce
Crop picking is the harvesting of fruits, vegetables, or other produce by hand.
The work is labor-intensive and often seasonal, performed largely by migrant workers: Crop picking jobs pay by the bucket.
The term sometimes appears in discussions of agricultural labor conditions and immigration policy.
- harvestGathering mature crops
- fieldsExpanses for cultivation
- fruitEdible plant ovary
- vegetablesEdible plants, not fruits
- farmworkersAgricultural manual laborers
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Placing seeds in earth
sowing · seeding · transplanting · germination · tilling
crop pickingtilling
Cultivating soil for crops
plowing · cultivating · soil preparation · land clearing · ground breaking
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