Sunday, June 12, 2016

Global Food and Agriculture Photos June 12, 2016


A cake made with honey and almonds and topped with roasted male bees awaits visitors at a stand at an environmental fair at Schloss Bellevue palace on June 8, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. Insects as a widespread source of food for humans is gaining worldwide as a palatable alternative solution to feeding an ever-growing human population. Photo credit: Sean Gallup / Getty Images.

Turkish people purchase different kinds of fruit, vegetables and meats during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at Ulus district of Ankara, Turkey on June 6, 2016. Photo credit: Aykut Unlupinar / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

Animal activists display protest banners outside the Yulin government office in Beijing on June 10, 2016. A group of Chinese and international animal activists presented a petition signed by 11 million people calling on authorities to end the annual Yulin dog meat festival. The activists claim thousands of dogs, many of the them stolen from pet owners, are slaughtered each year for the festival, which begins in the southern city of Yulin on June 21. Photo credit: GREG BAKER / AFP / Getty Images.

Farmers arrive with carts full of harvested rice at the place of a rice threshing machine in the outskirts of Hanoi on June 9, 2016. Photo credit: AFP / HOANG / Getty Images.

Crates of fruit and vegetables are ready for export at transport company ABC Logistics in Poeldijk, near The Hague, on June 6, 2016. The Dutch agricultural exports last year rose to a record level of 81.3 billion euros. Photo credit: AFP / ANP / Robin van Lonkhuijsen / Getty Images.

Containers on a cable transport system are seen carrying salt from the local mine in Wielowies, Poland, on 11 June 2016. Poland is home to several UNESCO salt mine sites which open nature trails this month. Photo credit: Jaap Arriens / NurPhoto via Getty Images.

Romanian farmers protest next to the Romanian Parliament in Bucharest on June 7, 2016. About two thousand sheep and cattle breeders, from all over the country, protested near the Palace of Parliament, arguing that they have not been granted subsidies for 2015. The farmers ask also a mandatory quota for the romanian produced food products sold by hypermarkets, by law enforcement. Photo credit: DANIEL MIHAILESCU / AFP / Getty Images.

A farmer demonstrates use of a John Deere & Co. Greenstar 2630 terminal, left, Amazonen-Werke H Dreyer GmbH GPS Switch, top right, and Amatron terminals, below right, in the cab of a Claas KGaA Axion 820 tractor in a field of wheat at Thrales End Farm near Harpenden, U.K., on Monday June 6, 2016. German chemical company Bayer AG cited the growth in such digitally assisted farming as a key reason for its $62 billion bid for Monsanto Co., which has become a leading provider of analytics used by growers. Photo credit: Luke MacGregor / Bloomberg via Getty Images.

An Egyptian man poses for a photo as he harvests grapes near the village of Kafr Dawud in the Egyptian Nile Delta province of al-Minufiyah, north of the capital Cairo on June 11, 2016. Photo credit: AFP / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / Getty Images.