Sunday, July 10, 2016

Global Food and Agriculture Photos July 10, 2016


Workers gather lavender flowers during a harvest near the village of Tsenovo on July 07, 2016. In recent years Bulgarian production of lavender oil has increased, meaning that the country is now the largest lavender producer in the world. Photo credit: DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP / Getty Images.


Containers of Silk soy mik are displayed on a shelf at United Market on July 7, 2016 in San Rafael, California. French food product corporation Danone has announced that it has purchased Denver, Colorado based organic foods producer WhiteWave Foods for $10.4 billion. WhiteWave produces several popular brands including Silk soy and almond milks, Horizon organic milk, and Earthbound Farm organic salads. Photo credit: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images.


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), participates in a news conference regarding genetically engineered food labeling, on Capitol Hill, July 6, 2016 in Washington, DC. Photo credit: Mark Wilson / Getty Images.


Afghan residents shop for dried fruit and sweets for the forthcoming Eid Al-Fitr holiday in Herat on July 4, 2016. Muslims around the world are preparing to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. Photo credit: AREF KARIMI / AFP / Getty Images.


Matveyevskoye General Director Nikolai Kyrin (L) and Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visit the Matveyevskoye agricultural enterprise in the Moscow Region on July 5, 2016. Photo credit: Dmitry Astakhov / Russian Government Press Office / TASS / Getty Images.


A photo taken through a window shows a cook reading a newspaper as he takes a break in his barbecued meat outlet in Hong Kong on July 6, 2016. Photo credit: ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP / Getty Images.


UFC employees volunteer at the Three Square Food Bank on July 6, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo credit: Hagan Creer / Zuffa LLC / Getty Images.


A cook prepares sandwiches in a food truck parked on a rest area in Crevin, western France, on July 6, 2016. Hand-picked food trucks settled since last summer in the rest areas of northwestern France's highways, a unique initiative in France to encourage motorists to pause and combine pleasure and road safety. Photo credit: LOIC VENANCE / AFP / Getty Images.


A Cambodian man rides his motorbike loaded with vegetables travelling along a street in Phnom Penh on July 6, 2016. Photo credit: TANG CHHIN SOTHY / AFP / Getty Images.


A man shops for apples at a fresh produce market in Shanghai, China, on Sunday, July 3, 2016. The yuan headed for a fifth weekly decline, the longest run of losses this year, amid speculation the central bank favors further depreciation as it seeks to revive economic growth. Photo credit: Qilai Shen / Bloomberg / Getty Images.


A worker adjusts a strand of staking twine as paprika plants grow inside a greenhouse operated by Seminis and De Ruite, the vegetable seeds divisions of Monsanto Co., in Bergschenhoek, Netherlands, on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Monsanto's disappointing earnings report could help Bayer AG with its proposed $53.7 billion takeover of the world's largest seed company. Photo credit: Jasper Juinen / Bloomberg via Getty Images.


Roberto Velasquez, shows growing coffee 'Pacamara' from his farm to Taiwanese tasters in the crater of the volcano of San Salvador on July 04, 2016 in San Salvador, El Salvador. Photo credit: Marlon Gomez / LatinContent / Getty Images.


Bonsai are displayed in the Floral Marquee tent during the press preview day of the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show on on July 4, 2016 in London, England. The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, which is the UK's biggest gardening show covering 34 acres, opens to the public tomorrow and runs until July 10. Photo credit: Dan Kitwood / Getty Images.


Indian vegetable vendors wait on customers at a produce market in Siliguri on July 9, 2016. Photo credit: DIPTENDU DUTTA / AFP / Getty Images.