Sunday, October 9, 2016

Global Food and Agriculture Photos October 9, 2016

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


U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (R) works with students to harvest sweet potatoes in White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House October 6, 2016 in Washington, DC. Students from across the country were invited to help pull vegetables and greens from the garden which was established by the first lady in the spring of 2009. The garden is now a permanent feature on the White House grounds. Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images.

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama (C) pose for a group photograph during an event to harvest the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House October 6, 2016 in Washington, DC. Guests included Sesame Street's Elmo and Rosita, NASA Astronaut Kjell Lindgren, NBC's Al Roker and Sam Kass, NBA All-Star Alonzo Mourning, Growing Power founder and CEO Will Allen, Produce Marketing Association President Cathy Burns and others. Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images.

Women make potato kale tacos at the first South by South Lawn event, a festival of ideas, art, and action on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on October 3, 2016. Photo credit: AFP / Olivier Douliery / Getty Images.

Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans on October 6, 2016 at an agricultural cooperative in Guiglo. Production and exports of cocoa from Ivory Coast, the world's producer, decreased during the 2015-2016 season compared to the 2014-2015 season, announced on October 5, 2016 the spokesperson of the Ivorian government, Bruno Kone. Photo credit: AFP / Sia KAMBOU / Getty Images.

Farmers stand next to cows during the 'Sommet de l'Elevage' livestock show, on October 7, 2016 at the Grande Halle d'Auvergne in Cournon-d'Auvergne. Photo credit: AFP / Thierry Zoccolan / Getty Images.

A couple of breeders walk with a cow at the 25th Animal Breeding Summit on October 5, 2016 in Cournon, central France. The European Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan announced on October 5, 2016 the release of 15 million euros to promote the meat in the 28 europeans countries and promised other measures to support the market in crisis. Photo credit: AFP / Thierry Zoccolan / Getty Images.

A woman with a child poses for pictures next to decorations made of pumpkins at Moscow's Manezhnaya Square, with State Historical museum seen in the background, on October 4, 2016, as part of the Golden Autumn gastronomic festival. Photo credit: AFP / NATALIA Kolesnikova / Getty Images.

Cherkassy Region, Ukraine. Harvesting corn in the village of Mankovka in Mankovsky District. Photo credit: Viktor Drachev / TASS / Getty Images.

The 2016 Golden Autumn Russian agricultural exhibition taking place at the VDNKh Exhibition Centre. Photo credit: Dmitry Serebryakov / TASS / Getty Images.

A basket with artichokes, red pepper, lemon, cherry tomatoes in one of 20 shops inside the Mercato Centrale Roma (Central Market Roma ) inaugurated the today at the Termini Station, which provides quality food guaranteed by the artisans of taste on October 5, 2016 in Rome, Italy. Photo credit: Stefano Montesi / Corbis News / Getty Images.

Vendors wait for customers at a market in Jakarta on October 6, 2016. Photo credit: AFP / ADEK Berry / Getty Images.

A woman makes tortillas with four kinds of dough made with red, white and blue corn and prickly pear, at the Mole Fair in San Pedro Atocpan, Milpa Alta Borough, Mexico on October 5, 2016. Tortillas are eaten with mole, a sauce of pre-hispanic origin made out of 26 basic ingredients cooked according to traditional recipes. 92 percent of the inhabitants of San Pedro Atocpan make and sell mole for a living. Photo credit: AFP / Omar TORRES / Getty Images.

A basket with red corn and peppers is seen at the Mole Fair in San Pedro Atocpan, Milpa Alta Borough, Mexico on October 5, 2016. Photo credit: AFP / Omar TORRES / Getty Images.

Visitors celebrate inside a festival tent on the final night of the 183th Oktoberfest in Munich, southern Germany, on October 3, 2016. Overall, about 5.6 million people visited the world's largest beer festival during the last 17 days. Photo credit: AFP / CHRISTOF Stache / Getty Images.

People crowd to watch the traditional riflemen salute shooting at the Theresienwiese fair grounds of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, on October 3, 2016, the last day of the famous beer festival's 2016 edition. Photo credit: AFP / CHRISTOF Stache / Getty Images.

Palestinians collect olives at the start of the annual harvest season in Gaza City on October 2, 2016. . Farmers across the Palestinian territories have started to harvest their olives, with many making their own olive oil and soap for themselves and to sell. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Palestinian workers prepare crushed olives between metal plates at a traditional stone press in Gaza City, on Oct. 2, 2016. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

In this photograph taken on October 6, 2016, an Afghan vegetable vendor waits for customers along the roadside in Lashkar Gah city of Helmand province. Photo credit: AFP / WAKIL Kohsar / Getty Images.

Spaetburgunder grape seeds sit in a tank during pinot noir wine manufacture on the Weingut Friedrich Becker Estate vineyard in Schweigen, Germany, on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Global warming has been good to German viticulture, with average temperatures up 1.4 degrees centigrade over the past 40 years, creating the perfect climate for notoriously finicky pinot noir vines. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

Joe McWilliams, center, a near by rancher, watches the fire grow after he and other neighbors used their tractors to dig fire lines during a wildfire in Pueblo County near the town of Beulah, Colorado October 03, 2016. Residents in the area were placed on pre-evacuation status. Photo credit: RJ Sangosti / Denver Post / Getty Images.

Syrians who have returned to the Syrian town of Jarabulus, following its cleansing of Daesh militants as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, are seen at livestock bazaar on October 3, 2016. The anti-Daesh operation called Euphrates Shield, which was launched on August 24, aims at improving security, supporting coalition forces, supporting Syrias territorial integrity and eliminating the terror threat along Turkeys border through Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters backed by Turkish armor, artillery, and jets. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

Devotees of the Chinese Ka thu shrine takes with his mouth pierced with spikes takes part in a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand, on October 8, 2016. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Nepalese people traveling towards home for Dashain celebration: A Dry food vendor selling dry food to the customer, who going to celebrate Biggest Hindu festival Dashain at New Buspark, Balaju, Kathmandu, Nepal on Saturday, October 08, 2016. He used to earn 40000 - 50000 (US$ 400 - 500) during Dashain. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Food on display at the Xbox & Gears Of War 4 New York launch event at The Microsoft Loft on October 7, 2016 in New York City. Photo credit: Ben Gabbe / Getty Images.

Gardening employees plant bulbs in the form of a mosaic inspired by the painter Piet Mondrian, following the theme of Dutch Design for the floral attraction, in Lisse on October 6, 2016. Photo credit: AFP / ANP / Remko de Waal / Netherlands OUT / Getty Images.