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...When the grape harvest is going on in our area, there is virtually no available help," he says...
Winter is the slow part of the grape season, he says--Kovacevich's workers only fertilize and irrigate until March, when the vines begin to grow again...
...until the harvest, most of the work involves removing excess growth from the vines. Workers remove extra shoots, pluck leaves by hand to let in more sunlight and apply chemicals to the grape blooms to thin the bunches...
...these procedures are both labor-intensive and crucial to the creation of a saleable table grape. Without a well-trained, well-paid and satisfied workforce, Kovacevich says, he could not produce quality fruit...
Adam Kovacevich says that he finds it surprising when Harvard students claim that working conditions in the grape farms...