Sunday, September 6, 2015

Farm and Food Photos September 7, 2015

Farmers steering tractors take part in a national demonstration on the Cours de Vincennes avenue near Place de la Nation in Paris, on September 3, 2015, to protest against the falling prices that they say are endangering their livelihoods. The protest comes after months of unrest as farmers in the dairy and meat industries become increasingly desperate in the face of plummeting food prices which they blame on foreign competition, as well as supermarkets and distributors. Photo credit: AFP PHOTO / THOMAS SAMSON / Getty Images.

A farmer harvests rice with a combine harvester in a paddy field in Katori, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, on Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. Japan is scheduled to release second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) figures on Sept. 8. Photo credit: Akio Kon / Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Workers harvest cocoa fruit from trees on a cocoa plantation in Agboville, Ivory Coast, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Ivory Coast will produce about 1.7 million metric tons of cocoa in the season that ends on Sept. 30, Ivory Coast's Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan said. Photo credit: Jose Cendon / Bloomberg via Getty Images.

A vendor sits waiting for customers at a stall in a vegetable market in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Prices of the vegetable -- a staple in Indian diets, making prices a particularly sensitive political issue -- have almost doubled since July, leading to a series of widely reported heists in recent weeks. Photo credit: Dhiraj Singh / Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Dairy farmer Angel Vicente pushes cattle feed for cows at a farm on September 1, 2015 in Fuentespreadas, near Zamora, in Spain. Many farmers are losing money from the production of milk due to falling prices and cheap foreign imports. Dairy farmers are being forced out of business as they face problems with access to a salary and difficulties paying suppliers of food, mechanical and veterinary services, despite long working hours. At least 500 farmers are expected to take part in a protest march that started in Leon and will arrive in Madrid on September 4, where they will demonstrate outside the ministry of agriculture. Photo CREDIT: PABLO BLAZQUEZ DOMINGUEZ / Getty Images.

Workers harvest napa cabbages in a field as wind turbines stand in the background in Taebaek, South Korea, on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. Bank of Korea reported this month that South Korea's second-quarter gross domestic production (GDP) figures rose 0.3%. Photo credit: SeongJoon Cho / Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Workers pack hop plants onto a wagon during harvesting on August 31, 2015 in Rocov, near Zatec, Czech Republic. Czech Republic is one of the world's largest hops producers, with 4600 hectares of land used for farming the plant. Representatives of the Hop Growers Union of the Czech Republic expect the harvest to be 4500 tonnes, around a quarter lower than last year, which was 6202 tonnes. About 80% of the hops are grown for export, with the most going to Japan, Germany and China. Photo CREDIT: MATEJ DIVIZNA / Getty Images.