Sunday, April 22, 2018

Global Food and Agriculture Photos April 22, 2018

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

U.S.A.
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue speaks during a forum April 18, 2018 in Washington, DC. Secretary Perdue and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai participated in an Agriculture Department forum to discuss 'improving e-connectivity in rural America.' Photo credit: Alex Wong / Getty Images.
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A farmer collects saliva from a pig pen for a medical test at the Paustian Enterprises farm in Walcott, Iowa, U.S., on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. China last week announced $50 billion worth of tariffs on American products including soybeans and pork in retaliation for President Trump's plan to impose duties on 1,333 Chinese products. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

E.U.
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An aerial picture shows the blumming bulb fields of Lisse (the Keukenhof) in The Netherlands on April 20, 2018. Photo credit: Koen van Weel / ANP / AFP / Getty Images.
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A winemaker ploughs the Pommard vineyard on April 20, 2018, near Pommard, in the region of Burgundy, southeastern France. Photo credit: AFP / PHILIPPE DESMAZES / Getty Images.
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Flowers are displayed at Euroflora at Parchi Di Nervi on April 20, 2018 in Genoa, Italy. Euroflora takes place every five years and is one of the main exhibition of flowers and ornamental plants, specialized on research to plant hybridization, cut flowers, potted plants, arboriculture, gardening and landscaping.The 2018 edition of the show is held in Genoa from April 21 to May 6. Photo credit: Jacopo Raule / Getty Images.
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A farmer sprays chemicals to treat his wheat fields, on April 17, 2018 in Villefranche-de-Lauragais, France. Photo credit: AFP / REMY GABALDA / Getty Images.

COLOMBIA
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Crates of avocados sit stacked in the back of a truck at La Regada farm in Salgar, Antioquia department, Colombia, on Monday, April 16, 2018. The National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) will release trade balance figures on April 20. Photo credit: Eduardo Leal / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

MEXICO
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Fishermen process sea cucumbers they just collected from the ocean, a day before the legal fishing season ends, in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico on April 20, 2018. - The sea cucumber is a protected species but its high value in the Asian markets has generated an over-exploitation. The Mexican Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development and Fisheries (SAGARPA) has had to strengthen management measures for the conservation and responsible fishing practice of this species. Photo credit: AFP / HUGO BORGES / Getty Images.

JAPAN
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Japanese farmer Yuichi Ogura plants rice seedlings on his paddy in Kazo city, Saitama prefecture on April 20, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / BEHROUZ MEHRI / Getty Images.

CHINA
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This photo taken on April 19, 2018 shows farmers planting peanuts in a field in Liaocheng in China's eastern Shandong province. Photo credit: AFP / Getty Images.
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This photo taken on April 16, 2018 shows farmers working on plum trees in Xuanhua in China's northern Hebei province. China's economy grew a forecast-beating 6.8 percent in the first quarter, official data showed on April 17, overcoming Beijing's battle on financial risk and pollution and trade tensions with the US. Photo credit: AFP / Getty Images.
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Bird view of tulip flower sea on 16 April 2018 in Yancheng, Jiangsu, China. Photo credit: TPG / Getty Images.

INDIA
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Indian farmers thresh a harvested wheat crop in a field in Allahabad on April 21, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / SANJAY KANOJIA / Getty Images.

PALESTINE
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Palestinian beekeepers remove bees in the process of collecting honey at a farm near the Israel-Gaza border in the northern Gaza Strip April on 21 April 2018. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

RUSSIA
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Sheep bred and grazing at the Solnechnoye farm in Karachay-Cherkessia, southern Russia. Photo credit: Denis Abramov / TASS / Getty Images.