Day workers gather at dawn in their home village of Tiszavasvari, 200km east of Budapest in Hungary. In season, 15-20 workers are taken by bus to a fruit farm in Tiszadob, about 18km to the north, for seasonal agricultural workPhotograph: Attila Balazs/EPADay workers buy breakfast as they wait for the bus in TiszavasvariPhotograph: Attila Balazs/EPASeasonal day workers ride the bus to work at dawn from their home villagePhotograph: Attila Balazs/EPA
Day workers listen to the morning briefing by farm owner Bela Szakacs Photograph: Attila Balazs/EPADay workers ride on the covered trailer of a tractor into the peach orchards Photograph: Attila Balazs/EPADew flies as a day worker shakes ripe fruit from a tree in a peach orchardPhotograph: Attila Balazs/EPAFarm owner Bela Szakacs briefs one of his drivers about the day's workPhotograph: Attila Balazs/EPAA day worker shakes ripe fruit from a treePhotograph: Attila Balazs/EPADay workers pick peaches off the ground after they were shaken off the treesPhotograph: Attila Balazs/EPAA bucket of peaches is emptied into a containerPhotograph: Attila Balazs/EPAShift manager Jozsef Vadasz, left, and farm owner Bela Szakacs speak at the farm's cold warehouse after the day's work has finished Photograph: Attila Balazs/EPAShift manager Jozsef Vadasz, centre, has dinner with his family at his home in Tiszavasvari Photograph: Attila Balazs/EPADay workers look out of their bus as they arrive back home in Tiszavasvari after a day's work Photograph: Attila Balazs/EPAThe children of a day-worker couple eat fruit in their home in TiszavasvariPhotograph: Attila Balazs/EPA
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