Workers cutting and collecting palm oil fruits on palm oil plantation, West New Britian Island, Papua New Guinea

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Workers cutting and collecting palm oil fruits in a High Conservation Value Forestry area which has been felled and has become a palm oil plantation, West New Britain Island Papua New Guinea. The men who cut the fruits get paid PNG Kina per fruit bunch cut ,the women who collect the drop single fruits get paid 120 PNG Kina per fortnight, the men who gather the fruit bunches into the wheelbarrows and take them to roadside get paid 20 PNG Kina per 500 fruit bunches collected.

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Size: 5050px × 3367px
Location: West New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea
Photo credit: © jeremy sutton-hibbert / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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