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The thing is, being a worker in olive groves pays quite well. There s a huge shortage of farm workers , and many groves are left unharvested.

I used to make 20 Euros a day harvesting olives by hand in southern Italy a few years back, not really my idea of well paid.

But I did see a lot of unharvested resources; olives, oranges, lemons etc.

it was 60-90 / day in greece last year , probably even higher this year due to lack of workers and the high price of oil

This is definitely an area where robotics and AI would be very useful

Aren't there already mechanical tree shakers that harvest olives fairly efficiently?

20 Euro a day? Wow. Did you work two hours per day? Why not work at McDonalds or Sigma supermarkets at that point?

Or were there other factors at play (family farm, horticulture education, non-euro remuneration etc)