Sunday, March 6, 2016

Farm and Food Photos March 7, 2016


Barmen pour ales and stouts for drinkers at the London Drinker Beer and Cider Festival at the Camden Centre on March 2, 2016 in London, England. The event is run by Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and features over 70 real ales, ciders and perries from over 50 breweries. Photo Credit: Chris Ratcliffe / Getty Images.


A piglet painted with the color of the French flag stands with other in a supermarket during a pig breeders demonstration organized by the collective 'Sauvons l'elevage francais' (Save French breeding) (SEF) to demand the labeling of the origin on processed meat products in which they empty shelves of pigs products with unknown origins on March 5, 2016 in Pace, northwestern France. Photo credit: AFP / DAMIEN MEYER / Getty Images.


This picture taken on March 2, 2016 shows farmers collecting and putting dry paddy into bags for sale in Vi Thuy, in the southern Mekong delta province of Hau Giang. Vietnam's Mekong delta is the country's largest rice producer. Photo credit: AFP PHOTO / AFP / STR / Getty Images.


This picture taken on March 2, 2016 shows a man selling watermelons along a highway leading to the center of Hanoi. Local media reported the price of watermelon felt down causing big loses to farmers growing watermelon in Vietnam's central highland. Photo credit: AFP PHOTO / HOANG DINH Nam / Getty Images.


A boy holding his brother walks on a drought-hit rice field in Long Phu district, southern delta province of Soc Trang on March 2, 2016. Vietnam is suffering its worst drought in nearly a century hitting farmers especially hard in the crucial southern Mekong delta, experts said. Photo credit: AFP PHOTO / AFP / STR / Getty Images.


Palestinian women work in an apiculture farm in the West Bank village of Deir Ballut north of Ramallah, on February 29, 2016. The Palestinian Agricultural Development Association, supported by the European Union, runs a startup project to improve the socio-economic situation for rural women by keeping bees and harvesting their honey for sale. The project, based on collective ownership, aims to employ 150 Palestinian women. Photo credit: AFP / AHMAD GHARABLI / Getty Images.


An Indian shopkeeper (R) selling pulses and essential food items waits for customers at a market in Allahabad on February 29, 2016. India aims to double the income of its millions of struggling farmers including by spending 359 billion rupees (USD5.2 billion) on boosting the vast agriculture sector, in plans outlined in the annual budget. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government was focusing on boosting livelihoods in rural areas where more than half of the country's population lives. Photo credit: AFP PHOTO / Sanjay Kanojia / Getty Images.


Indian farm labourers sort potatoes in a field on the outskirts in Jalandhar on February 29, 2016. India aims to double the income of its millions of struggling farmers including by spending 359 billion rupees (USD5.2 billion) on boosting the vast agriculture sector, in plans outlined in the annual budget. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government was focusing on boosting livelihoods in rural areas where more than half of the country's population lives. Photo credit: AFP PHOTO / SHAMMI MEHRA / AFP / Getty Images.


SYRIA. MARCH 4, 2016. Shepherds with a flock of sheep on a road to Aleppo, in Aleppo Governorate. Photo Credit: Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Getty Images.


Afghan farmers work in their poppy field in the Dara-i-noor district of Nangarhar province on March 1, 2016. Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan dropped 19 percent in 2015 compared to the previous year, according to figures from the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics and United Nations Oiffce on Drugs and Crime. Photo Credit: AFP / Noorullah Shirzada / Getty Images.