fruit pickers

Those gathering produce

Fruit pickers are workers who harvest fruit from trees, vines, and bushes—often seasonal laborers moving with harvests.

The term also refers to handheld tools with a basket and long pole for reaching high branches without a ladder: She used a fruit picker to get the apples at the top of the tree.

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migrants · apples · fields · seasonal · harvest time · farmworkers · farm labor · groves · branches · ripe · bushels · cherries · laborers · strawberries · crops · buckets · vineyards · piece rate

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agricultural task role

fruit pickersplanters

Vessels for cultivating vegetation

tree planters · seeders · pruners · cultivators · nursery workers

position in agricultural labor hierarchy

fruit pickersgrowers

Those who raise plants

plantation owners · farm managers · landowners · labor contractors

supply chain position

fruit pickersend consumers

Final buyers of goods

Family

fruit, fruits, fruity, fruitful, fruitless, fruitfully, fruitfulness, fruition, fructose

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G