nearly all the pickers here are foreign seasonal workers this year half of hubertus regular work force stayed away because of worries over the coronavirus those who did come have helped to recruit friends and family from remain in bulgaria. if they hadn't come it would have made things very difficult for a lot of farmers what would we have done the asparagus plants would have survived they would not have done well but they would have survived whether the farms would have survived is another matter. the contract workers arrived in germany on special flights they had to go into quarantine but were able to start work on the farm straight away several measures were put into place to keep everybody safe. and. illegal ones and we divided the rooms into to keep people far enough apart we brought in different shift times with different breaks and meal times so the people coming in on shift do not meet. the workers are divided into separate groups. but. critics say harvesting the asparagus does not justify the risk of infection but the harvesters insists they feel safe. no problem work is going