Sunday, September 3, 2017

Global Food and Agriculture Photos September 3, 2017

This roundup of global food, farming, and agricultural photos appears every Sunday on Big Picture Agriculture.

U.S.A.
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A methane-powered concept tractor by New Holland Agricultural Equipment SpA, a division of CNH Industrial NV, sits on display during after being debuted at the company's booth during the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. The tractor is part of the companies so-called 'energy independent farm' initiative, where their plan is for farmers to generate their own energy to run their farm and agricultural equipment. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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A Hardi International A/S agricultural sprayer sits on display during the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. The show, sponsored by Farm Progress Co. and owned by Penton Media, is billed as the largest outdoor farm show in the U.S. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Attendees view equipment on display at the booth for New Holland Agricultural Equipment SpA, a division of CNH Industrial NV, during the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Attendees take photographs of corn plants growing at the Monsanto Co. booth at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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A display showing the root penetration of Syngenta AG soybean plants seen at the company's booth during the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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An attendee stands near a display of grasses at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Whole Foods Market Inc. 365 brand organic butter and eggs are arranged for a photograph in New York, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Amazon.com Inc. spent its first day as the owner of a brick-and-mortar grocery chain cutting prices at Whole Foods Market as much as 43 percent. Photo credit: David Williams / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

E.U.
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Revellers enjoy the atmosphere in tomato pulp while participating the annual Tomatina festival on August 30, 2017 in Bunol, Spain. An estimated 22,000 people threw 150 tons of ripe tomatoes in the world's biggest tomato fight held annually in this Spanish Mediterranean town. Photo credit: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez / Getty Images.
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Revelers enjoy in tomato pulp during the annual La Tomatina festival in Bunol district of Valencia, Spain on August 30, 2017. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.
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An employees fit hydraulic cables to a Lexion combine harvester on the production line at the Claas KGaA factory in Harsewinkel, Germany, on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. Claas Group, a 104-year-old, family-owned manufacturer of harvesters, threshers and tractors, is hunting for revenue by outfitting machines with sensors, cameras and software to help its products stand out amid slumping demand. Photo credit: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Employees move the driver's cabin into place using a crane on the combine harvester production line at the Claas KGaA factory in Harsewinkel, Germany, on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. Photo credit: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Bulgarian harvesters work in the vineyard of the Champagne house Pommery-Vranken during the grape harvest on August 30, 2017 in Reims. Photo credit: AFP / FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / Getty Images.
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Prisoners on August 29, 2017 work in a field at the Moyembrie farm in Coucy-le-Chateau-Auffrique, northern France. Since 2003, around 800 detainees have spent few months at the Moyembrie farm at the end of their prison sentence as part of a reintegration project before going back to society. Photo credit: AFP / FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / Getty Images.
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Harvesting potatoes in a filed in the village of Pererov. Photo credit: Viktor Drachev / TASS / Getty Images.
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Harvesting potatoes in a filed in the village of Semuradtsy. Photo credit: Viktor Drachev / TASS / Getty Images.

SCOTLAND
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A seagull steals a fish from the shelf where Robert Johnson senior is selecting the prawns on August 31, 2017 near Edinburgh, Scotland. Port Seton is one of the few East Lothian harbours to maintain a fishing fleet, but the harbour has seen a sharp drop in fishing in recent years, forcing many to abandon the industry. Father and son, with the same name, Robert Johnson, were forced to sell one of their trawlers due to a decrease in crustacean yields, but they still continue to brave the North sea conditions to bring in their daily catch. Photo credit: Simone Padovani / Awakening / Getty Images.

THAILAND
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Worker Kamol Srilaloong manually separates plastic bottles at the Wongpanit Suvarnabhumi recycle collection center on September 1, 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. People arrive at the recycling and sorting center with their products, plastic, metal, steel and paper. They are paid by weight according to the market cost. Plastic bottles can be recycled into Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottle flakes and post consumer recycle (PCR) for the textile market IPI -NPT chips. Many plastic items like shopping bags, and food wrapping tend to be used for short periods before being discarded. A recent study stated that Thailand along with China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam are on the list of the world's top-five plastic polluters. Cleaning up plastic pollution in Thailand is a challenge due to cultural, infrastructure and environmental obstacles. Photo credit: Paula Bronstein / Getty Images.

CHINA
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This photo taken on August 29, 2017 shows Chinese farmers harvesting red quinoa in Jianhe in China's southwestern Guizhou province. Photo credit: AFP / STR / Getty Images.

NEPAL
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A man carrying pumpkin after buying at Kalimati Vegetables market, Kathmandu, Nepal on Thursday, August 31, 2017. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

RUSSIA
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A woman with a child buys meat at Moscows Danilovsky market at 74 Mytnaya Street. Photo credit: Sergei Bobylev / TASS / Getty Images.
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Gala apple trees in a garden of the Alma Production company in Abinsky District. Photo credit: Vitaly Timkiv / TASS / Getty Images.
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Workers harvest gala apples in a garden of the Alma Production company in Abinsky District. Photo credit: Vitaly Timkiv / TASS / Getty Images.
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A worker sorts gala apples at a fruit storage of the Alma Production company in Abinsky District. Photo credit: Vitaly Timkiv / TASS / Getty Images.
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Sorting gala apples at a fruit storage of the Alma Production company in Abinsky District. Photo credit: Vitaly Timkiv / TASS / Getty Images.
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A worker at the Integrated Catering Trade Network supplying food for passengers of the Sapsan high speed electric trains. Photo credit: Peter Kovalev / TASS / Getty Images.

IVORY COAST
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A picture taken on August 28, 2017 shows chocolate bar 'Ecoya's made of fairtrade certified cacao beans, dried and roasted by women in a pilot cooperative in Yamoussoukro launched by a young Ivorian pastry chef in Abidjan. A young Ivorian pastry chef has on August 28, 2017, launched the first block of chocolate made in Côte d'Ivoire from cocoa beans certified fair trade and roasted by women in a pilot cooperative. Photo credit: AFP / ISSOUF SANOGO / Getty Images.

INDONESIA
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Javanese people jostle for the 'Gunungan', a sacrifice in the shape of a mountain, during the Grebeg ritual as part of celebrations for Eid al-Adha at Kauman Great mosque on September 2, 2017 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The tradition involves an offering of vegetables, peppers, eggs, and other items, called 'Gunungan', that are brought to the Grand Mosque. Muslims worldwide celebrate Eid Al-Adha, to commemorate the Prophet Ibrahim's readiness to sacrifice his son as a sign of his obedience to God, during which they sacrifice permissible animals, generally goats, sheep, and cows. Photo credit: Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images.

EGYPT
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Egyptian cattle traders gather at the Ashmun market in Egypt's Menufia Governorate on August 30, 2017, as they try to sell livestock to customers ahead of the annual Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday when custom requires the faithful to make a sacrifice. This year, with inflation in Egypt hitting record highs, customers seemed more interesting in gawking at the cattle than buying any ahead of the first day of Eid al-Adha. Photo credit: AFP / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / Getty Images.

PAKISTAN
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A farmer feeds the sacrificial animal at a livestock market ahead of Eid al-Adha, also called as Feast of the Sacrifice, the second of two religious holidays celebrated by Muslims worldwide each year, in Islamabad, Pakistan on August 30, 2017. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

SYRIA
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Traders sell sacrificial sheep at a livestock market set up for the Muslims' sacrificial festival Eid al-Adha in Eastern Ghouta which has been under Bashar al-Assad regimes blockade for 6 years, in Damascus, Syria on August 31, 2017. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

INDIA
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View of the Goat Market ahead of the sacrificial Eid al-Adha festival in Kolkata, India on 28 August 2017. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.
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An Indian Muslim vendor arranges vermicelli at a market stall during the Eid al-Adha festival, in Guwahati on September 1, 2017. Muslims across the world are preparing to celebrate the annual festival of Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and commemorates Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son to show obedience to God. Photo credit: AFP / BIJU BORO / Getty Images.
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Kashmiri men gather with their boats laden with vegetables at the floating vegetable market on Dal Lake at dawn on August 28, 2017 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Every morning Dal dwellers visit the floating vegetable market, at Guder, in the centre of the lake at the crack of dawn, with their boats laden with vegetables that supply different parts of the city. Most of the produce sold here is grown in floating gardens on the Dal Lake. The rich ecosystem of this wetland produces plenty of tomatoes, cucumbers and, Nadru or (lotus roots Nelumbo nucifera, a savoured delicacy of Kashmir people) etc. The haggling and exchange all last hardly an hour, soon after everyone disappears as if the market never existed. Photo credit: Yawar Nazir / Getty Images.
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Kashmiri men gather with their boats laden with vegetables at the floating vegetable market on Dal Lake at dawn on August 28, 2017 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Photo credit: Yawar Nazir / Getty Images.
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A flower vendor presents lotus flower to a Belgium tourist as other Kashmiri men remain busy in buying and selling vegetables at the floating vegetable market on Dal Lake at dawn on August 28, 2017 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Photo credit: Yawar Nazir / Getty Images.