Gleaners at Work

We have at present, 48 people hand harvesting lost heads behind the machine harvester, we are paying piece work and the people are making about double the casual rate per day, good for us, good for them, they pick up the lost heads of sorghum and then thrash and clean it and then our fellow picks the bags up in the field, weighs it and take a ton at a time back to our grain heap where he puts it up the auger and it is added to the pile.
It works out that we get about 66% and the people 33%, good deal all round. The plan is to go to 100 people on Monday. The Gleaners are able to collect and clean about 300kg per team of three per day.
The Kenyan varieties lodge (fall over) really easily and so our losses are somewhere around 200kg ha.
The Kenyan presidential elections have been a big focus for the past week, lots of people talking about it. (click on the photo to enlarge)