"It's hard now, you just can't pick enough," says Ivan Mitic, a raspberry picker working in western Serbia's Arilje region, where drought and record heat has devastated crops. Serbia is one of the world's largest raspberry exporters, but with the dry season starting early, and plants already weakened by a late frost, farmers are warning of the worst harvest in decades. "The consequences will be catastrophic," says Mileta Pilcevic, a raspberry farm owner in Arilje. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES