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Strawberries Offer Lifeline for Romania's Unemployed
The job is seasonal, the pay poor and the work exhausting but it's money.
"There's no work in Calarasi: absolutely nothing," said Elena Hagiu, 41, a mother of four who lives in this Soviet-era town of 70,000 in southeastern Romania, as she waited her turn for an interview with visiting employers.
"I know that strawberry-picking is tough but I have no choice. It's a chance to earn a decent wage," said Hagiu, who is applying with her 20-year-old daughter -- two among the 610 women shortlisted for the interview.
While unemployment is high in Romania, it is still lower than in Spain.
But, unlike in Spain, employers say they can find hundreds of people here in Romania who are willing to do seasonal farm work like picking strawberries on a three-month contract for 37 euros (51 dollars) a day.
"Even with unemployment, we have to come to Romania because Spaniards don't want to work in agriculture," said Jose Manuel Oliva Robles from Freson de Palos, the biggest strawberry producer in the world, based in southern Spain.
Rares Ionescu, local director of the ANOFM employment agency, said it is not an ideal solution to joblessness but it offers local inhabitants a break.
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