Spain's strawberry farmers, in need of pickers, have gone to Morocco to hire thousands of labourers this month.
Yet despite all this clever kit, the sorting at Pier 96 is much less elaborate and precise than that performed by Mumbai's rag-pickers.
Polish turnip-pickers have indeed made life harder for unskilled Britons, but they have created new jobs too, by allowing turnip farmers to expand and recruit more white-collar (often British) staff.
Whom to Hire: Stock pickers, generalists, astrological financial planners - there are all sorts.
Dressed in a green felt trilby, white winkle pickers, drainpipe jeans, and a black-and-white jacket with shoulder pads, la Roux cuts a striking figure.
Start conversations with Chinese waste activists around the role and potential of waste pickers.
In the fall one walks in the orchards and the ground is hard with frost underfoot. The apples have been taken from the trees by the pickers.
Mumbai is thought to be home to hundreds of thousands of rag-pickers.
I have never abandoned time, in the wilderness I picked up the footprints of the pickers, in the desert I clenched the hot gravel between the fingers, and in the grassland I sought the roar of the herdsmen.
With some of the money he bought more sweet cakes and returned the next day to sell to the flower pickers.
They are being harvested more or less normally, though there is a shortage of pickers. Many seasonal labourers have either found jobs in reconstruction, or are busy repairing their own wrecked homes.
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA), a statutory watchdog, was set up in 2005 following the drowning of 21 Chinese cockle -pickers led into dangerous waters by their boss.
These products should then be balanced across picking zones to reduce congestion and further increase the productivity of the pickers.
