Hello, Haloo

[Rogi]

My first post here , i wold like to inquire for seasonal agriculture jobs in Finland for a few months ,( my permanent job in Serbian Railways is now frozen due to economic crisis for 6 months...) but ,im NOT interested in emigrating ,full jobs, volunteering, i heard there are raspberry plantations so just inquiring for link or employers here,i have plenty of experience on my own farm growing viliamete and meeker sorts , im 29 yrs old,single ,healthy, dont drink n smoke, coffee is ok,excellent in English, solid with German language ,open-minded ,friendly, looking also for exchange of knowledge in growing procedures,planting ,cooperation, and so, etc....
Anyways greetings from Serbia to all ,unusual winter here,we dont have snow now except on mountains...

[Rip]

Raspberry is grown very little, most of the pickers work with strawberries. The high season there is typically in July (subject to weather) lasts perhaps around three weeks (subject to weather). I googled one old news item claiming that the foreign pickers could make around 800-1000€ in that time; I trust you'd need to work pretty hard for that.

The relevant piece of legislation:

Aliens have the right to gainful
employment without a residence permit if
they:
---
arrive in the country to pick or harvest
berries, fruit, specialty crops, root vegetables
or other vegetables or to work on a fur farm
for a maximum of three months;

[CatNip]

Some info of the terms and wages, applicable for 2011: http://www.tyosuojelu.fi/upload/MARJATES2011eng.pdf

[Rogi]

I thank You for your replies , raspberry is a tough bush and its certainly less sensitive then strawberries and is more usefull for wider range of products ,tablets, vitamins& minerals ,syrups ,juices,colours , etc...Serbia is among top producers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry ,but or production is on hills which gives good quality but lacks mechanization so we have been stagnating for a while.Growing it on flat land doesnt give as good quality and is more prone to disease.
What im looking for is work ,but also an opportunity to really learn something new in growing. Red sorts is our production, including mine ,maybe bring and introduce black or yellow raspberry ,.
My wiliamete is starting at late May peaking in mid-June ,ending in late July -first week of July , meeker comes on later a week or week n a half or so (7-10 days) which eases picking at +38C and more (we start at 6h skip afternoon sun from 12h-15h and end in 20h),anyway i have replanted half of my 12 year old rasps in a north-south direction now, so it wont be 2-3 yrs before they bring large yields.
I would appreciate if You could point me to some link or direct contact for employer? Unfortunately i dont understand Finnish language.Strawberries i have seen ,they ripe before raspberry in my country so it would be good to combine it in one 3 month long stay.
Thanks in advance.

[Evertony]

In the archipelago you might be more fruitful ( ). I know on the island where I live there is a Latvian guy living & working on a farm all year round and he brought his wife and child over to live aswell. Because out here generally the kids do not want to join their dads in farming they want to move to the cities and follow a more modern life (or atleast they want to go to Uni and then return). There is an apple orchard here, but nearly all farming is Wheat, Rapeseed and Barley from what I can see. They are intelligient farmers here though and they will quickly diversify if there is a market for it and I dare say in the Summer months they do have fruit fields hidden away. The island of Houtskari is very varied in its farming, and has a very large fruit & veg facility along with many, many orchards and there is also a large dairy farming industry there too. There is a company called Isaksson's on Houtskari which is a big vegetable grower with a very high tech indoor growing facility.



Good luck in your endeavours.

[Rogi]

Now that looks high tech , glass house ,hydroponics , drop irrigation , looks like ...tomatoes?
Any chanse to pm me some link or contact adress, thanks.

[Evertony]

www.Isakssons.fi

[Rogi]

OK. Thanks i checked the website,its good company growing mostly tomatoes as i presumed in hanging gardens type ,its in swedish language but i managed , on this page they say the company is fully staffed and that they dont hire anymore.
http://www.isakssons.fi/platser.htm
...anyways i filled out the form ,will see what happens ,i reffered to this site when i described my interests, hope you dont mind.

[Rogi]

Hello once again to all ,it has been a while.
I am going to need your help , since I inquire about prices for the raspberries in the EU countries ,so what is the situation in Finland for raw and processed rasps in the shops?
Recently our AgroUnion (one of many in the branch) signed a contract for delivery of 50.000 tonns, with an Austrian company "CWS Best Food " and their representative Michael Wally, with the price of 1,6e per kilogram or 1,21 for the producers like me (after transportation costs). This was good news after disasterous last year ,and ive heard Poland farmers are losing their subsidies so we will have an equal competition now ,and due to harsh winter they suffered some damage done to their raspberry fields unlike us in the south.
Anyway anybody hear about this company, and what are the raspberry prices for EU countries?
Thanks in advance.

links
http://rs.seebiz.eu/unija-malinara-srbi ... /ar-28060/
http://www.fructidor.com/newsdetail.aspx?idn=14107
http://derstandard.at/1330390195748/80- ... beer-Ernte