Sunday, February 7, 2016

Farm and Food Photos February 8, 2016

Farmers display a packet of Syngenta AG 'korlanu' cauliflower seeds while standing in a field of cauliflower grown from Syngenta seeds in an arranged photograph on a farm near Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. China National Chemical Corp. is seeking commitments of about $5 billion each from four or five lenders to fund what would be the largest acquisition by a Chinese firm, according to the people. Photo credit: Waldo Swiegers / Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Davor Pisk, North America and Asia Pacific chief operating officer at Syngenta AG, left, speaks, as Ren Jianxin, chairman of China National Chemical Corp., centre, and Michel Demare, chairman of Syngenta AG, look on during a news conference to announce the ChemChina deal, delivered during the Syngenta AG full year results presentation in Basel, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016. China National Chemical Corp. agreed to buy Swiss pesticide and seeds maker Syngenta for more than $43 billion in cash as the state-backed company extends its shopping spree with what would be the biggest acquisition by a Chinese firm. Photo credit: Luke MacGregor / Bloomberg via Getty Images.

A greenhouse for planting tomatoes at the LipetskAgro greenhouse center in the city of Dankov, Russia on February 3, 2016. The center specializes in year-round growing of vegetables and herbs. Photo credit: Alexander Ryumin / TASS / Getty Images.

A vegetable grower in the greenhouse for planting cucumbers at the LipetskAgro greenhouse center in the city of Dankov, Russia. Photo credit: Alexander Ryumin / TASS / Getty Images.

A worker picks Habanero chiles in a field during harvest in Merida, Mexico, on Monday, Feb. 1, 2016. Habanero chile producers in the Yucatan region are moving away from using pesticides and other chemicals in order to comply with international standards for organic foods and increase exports. Photo credit: Susana Gonzalez / Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Miyazaki Prefectural Fisheries Research Institute sturgeon farm stands in Kobayashi City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, January 25, 2016. In Miyazaki, sturgeon farming is creating new jobs as local pork and beef operations face increased competition under the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, which may make meat imports from Australia and the U.S. more attractive. Photo credit: Akio Kon / Bloomberg via Getty Images.

A French oxen adorned with flowers stands near the Cathedral on February 4, 2016 in Bazas, southwestern France during the Bazas cattle competition. This competition, which includes the animal blessing by a priest, takes place every thursay before 'Fat Tuesday' since 1283. Photo credit: AFP PHOTO / GEORGES GOBET / AFP / Getty Images.

Women fleeing from Boko Haram Islamists walk past burnt livestock at Mairi village outskirts of Maiduguri capital of northeast Borno State, on February 6, 2016. Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have killed four people following raids on villages in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, a local official and residents said on February 6. The motorcycle-riding Islamists late Friday raided two villages, Mairi and Malari setting homes ablaze, and killing three women and a man in the village. The raids came barely a week after the attack on the village of Dalori, just outside Maiduguri, capital of the restive state, which left at least 85 people dead. Photo credit: AFP / STRINGER / Getty Images.

International transport trucks are blocked two kilometres from the border crossing of Promachonas between Greece and Bulgaria, in northern Greece, as farmers set up a blockade at customs offices, shutting down the movement of trucks to and from Bulgaria on February 7, 2016. Greek farmers protesting against pension reforms heightened highway and border protests around the country, piling pressure on the leftist government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. The mobilisation which began in mid-January has created tractor blockades at dozens of highway locations and key border crossings to Bulgaria and Turkey, which the farmers intermittently open for a few hours each day. Photo credit: AFP / SAKIS MITROLIDIS / Getty Images.

This picture taken in a supermarket in Dol-de-Bretagne, western France, on February 4, 2016, during a farmers' demonstration against the falling prices of their products shows a pack of bacon and a sticker removed from it bearing the stamp 'French pork', which was covering portion of the packaging where can be red in Dutch 'Produced in France with pork from the EU'. Photo credit: AFP / Damien MEYER / Getty Images.

Farmers gather during a demonstration against too low prices of their fruits and vegetables, in Almeria on February 4, 2016. At least a thousand growers in the Spanish province of Almeria, nicknamed 'el Huerto de Europa' (where farmers grow their produce, vegetables and fruits), demonstrated today to denounce 'prices too low' of their fruits and vegetables and to demand a change in trade relations. Photo credit: AFP PHOTO / JORGE GUERRERO / Getty Images.