Saturday, August 11, 2018

Global Food and Agriculture Photos August 12, 2018

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

E.U.
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Dutch Farmer Jan van Kempen is showing his new potato harvest in Zuidoostbeemster, The Netherlands on August 10, 2018. - Due to the longduring drought there are far less potatoes than usually. The price of potatoes is expected to rise. Photo credit: Lex van LIESHOUT / ANP / AFP / Getty Images.
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A small pumpkin lies on a dry field next to an almost dried-out pumpkin plant. Photo credit: Daniel Karmann / dpa / Getty Images.
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Dead pigs lay in a ditch after they were culled on August 9, 2018 in the outskirts of Lanurile village, southern Romania. - An African Swine Fever epidemic has broken out inn southeastern and northwestern regions of Romania. The National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) announced a survey of the African swine fever epidemic, announcing that there are 547 outbreaks in 98 localities. The number of slaughtered animals is estimated at 50,000. Photo credit: AFP / DANIEL MIHAILESCU / Getty Images.
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A tractor dumps his trailer of tomatoes on August 6, 2018 near Perly-Certoux, western Switzerland, as a heatwave sweeps across Europe. - Too soft or too ripe, the tomatoes are thrown because of the heat that generated a sudden overproduction in the middle of summer while local consumption is slowed down due to holidays. Photo credit: AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI / Getty Images.
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Winemaker Tobias Breit (28) irrigate a vine yard on a searing 34 degrees Celcius hot day on August 6, 2018 in Bensheim, Germany. The vines suffer from the extreme summer heat and winemaker Tobias Breit is fighting for the survival of his grapevines. Over the last 3 weeks Tobias has irrigated his 15 hectares every day, using half a million litres of water. Each vine needs 20 litres of water and he expects a 30 percent crop loss this year. Photo credit: Thomas Lohnes / Getty Images.
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04 August 2018, Germany, Langenenslingen-Friedingen: Farmer Wolfgang Fuchsloch drives a 1960 Claas combine harvester on a grain field. Photo credit: Thomas Warnack / dpa / Getty Images.
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The demonstrators march to commemorate the 16 agricultural workers killed in road accidents on August 4 and 6 as they went to work, and protested against the Corporal who exploits the precarious conditions of foreign workers on August 8, 2018 in Foggia, Italy. African migrant stage a march to protest against their working conditions in Italy in particular for the harvesting of tomatoes, following the death of 16 of their colleagues in two road accidents separated from San Severo to Foggia directed towards the Prefecture. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

TURKEY
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A photo shows the Arabian thoroughbred horses at horse-rearing field in Sultansuyu Agricultural Enterprise of Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, on August 09, 2018 in Malatya, Turkey. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

NEPAL
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A Nepalese man carrying straw for making mushroom at Khokana, Lalitpur, Nepal on Wednesday, August 08, 2018. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

INDIA
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The India Largest wholesale fruit market, MECHUA BAZAR. Crores of Rupees are exchanged daily in transaction. Lakes daily labor depended on August 09,2018 in Kolkata,India. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.
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Indian tea garden workers of an opposing union not supporting the strike carry sacks of tea leaves into a factory during the second day of a three-day-long tea garden strike at Dagapur tea garden on the outskirts of Siliguri on August 8, 2018. - Hundreds of thousands of tea plantation workers in eastern India went on a three-day strike on August 7 demanding a 50 cent increase in their daily wage from the government and estate owners. Photo credit: AFP / DIPTENDU DUTTA / Getty Images.
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A labourer sorts raw coconuts by its size from a large pile at a wholesale stall in the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) in Bangalore on August 6, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / MANJUNATH KIRAN / Getty Images.

RUSSIA
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A harvester competition as part of the Lumberjack of the 21st Century all-Russian timbersports contest held in the village of Kononovskaya in Ustyansky District for operators of harvesters, forwarders, hydraulic manipulators, and timber loaders. Photo credit: Sergei Fadeichev / TASS / Getty Images.

MALI
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Ostriches gather in an enclosure at Kledu farm, some 30kms north of Bamako on August 4, 2018. - A Malian businessman decided some 15 years ago to reintroduce ostriches to his country and now has some 3000 on his three hundred hectare farm near the Malian capital. Photo credit: AFP / ISSOUF SANOGO / Getty Images.