Some pickers say there is not enough work to pay for food

They say since Poland and Lithuania joined the EU, the labour market has been swamped with workers.

Some of the migrant pickers say they will have to go home, because there is not enough work to go round.

More flowers on the market are affecting the price. Instead of receiving 6p for each bunch, workers are now getting only 5p.

We have to pay for our caravan, our food and some people don't have enough money to eat Ilorna, Lithuanian picker

Antony Farms in Torpoint says the season is three weeks early this year due to the mild winter and their daffodils are the first outdoor flowers to be produced in Europe.

Daffodil farmers normally struggle to find workers but this year they say there are too many pickers in Cornwall.

The workers, who are mainly Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish, get �5 for each box of daffodils and can earn between �60 and �90 a day.

Pickers who were working six or seven days a week last year are only working two or three days a week this year because of the number of people working.

One group of Lithuanians have just arrived in Cornwall, but only a third have been able to get work.

Market forces

Ilorna and her husband have left their young daughter in Lithuania to come to Cornwall because they say there are no jobs back home.

Ilorna said: "If I go back to my country I have no work and my husband has no work, so we sit around all day just waiting.

"This year there are too many people and not enough work so we may have to go home.

"We have to pay for our caravan our food and some people don't have enough money to eat."

Jeremy Oatey from Antony Farms says having too much labour can be both good and bad.

He said: "It's good in many respects because we can guarantee getting the crop picked on time.

"But the downside is there's so much labour around it means there are more daffodils on the market."