Sunday, October 30, 2016

Global Food and Agriculture Photos October 30, 2016

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

Nepalese farmer picks marigold flowers for the Tihar festival at Ichangu Narayan village, near Kathmandu, Nepal, October 27, 2016. Photo credit: Sunil Pradhan / NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Nepalese farmers carrying harvested rice grains towards their home at Chhampi, Patan, Nepal on Monday, October 24, 2016. Agriculture remains an important economic activity for the landlocked country, with wheat and rice being the main food crops. Photo credit: Narayan Maharjan / NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Nepalese people puts rice grains on the sun for Drying after separates rice grains from the glumes, or husks at Bhaktapur, Nepal on Wednesday, October 26, 2016. Photo credit: Narayan Maharjan / NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Farmers carry vegetables on a van to sell them at a market outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh on October 25, 2016. Vegetable production is contributing to the nutrition strategy of Bangladesh. Average agriculture sector GDP annual growth reached 3.5 per cent. Photo credit: Rehman Asad / NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Farmers are collecting vegetable on a field outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh on October 25, 2016. Photo credit: Rehman Asad / NurPhoto / Getty Images.

A farmer inspects his strawberry plants under plastic mulches in a field near the village of Slivovo, Macedonia on October 25, 2016. Photo credit: AFP / ARMEND Nimani / Getty Images.

A man carries persimmons collected in a garden in the village of Uch-Dere in Lazarevsky District of the city of Sochi, Russia. Photo credit: Artur Lebedev / TASS / Getty Images.

Women workers pick the saffron, one of the world's most expensive spices, from the flower of Crocus sativus at a workshop in Zaveh, a village 160 kilometers away from Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran on October 28, 2016. Photo credit: Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

An Indian farmer burns paddy stubble in a field near the Indian Pakistan Wagah Border, about 35 kms from Amritsar on October 29, 2016. Every year around this time, farmers in Haryana and Punjab set paddy stubble ablaze to prepare ground for the next crop. In the process, the fires damage soil quality and cause heavy pollution but the farmers say they have no alternative. Photo credit: AFP / NARINDER Nanu / Getty Images.

A combine harvester collecting soya beans in fields of Alexei Borovinsky's farm in the village of Khorol, Russia. Photo credit: Yuri Smityuk / TASS / Getty Images.

A duck farmer herds his flock of domestic ducks on Turag River at Birulia village on October 23, 2016 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Duck farming is seen to be a popular and lucrative business. Photo credit: Sk Hasn Ali / Corbis News / Getty Images.

Spanish Intern Isabel checks plants in one of the Underground tunnels at 'Growing Underground' in Clapham on October 24, 2016 in London, England. The former air raid shelters covering 65,000 square feet lie 120 feet under Clapham High street and are home to 'Growing Underground', the UKs first underground farm. The farms produce includes pea shoots, rocket, wasabi mustard, red basil and red amaranth, pink stem radish, garlic chives, fennel and coriander, and supply to restaurants across London including Michelin-starred chef Michel Roux Jr's 'Le Gavroche'. Photo credit: Dan Kitwood / Getty Images.

Two thousand sheep are mustered through the city center to mark the seasonal migration of people with their livestock to south for their winter grazing and and to commemorate ancient paths of migration during the 23rd edition Fiesta de la Transhumancia (Transhumance Festival) in Madrid, Spain on 23 October 2016. Photo credit: Oscar Gonzalez / NurPhoto / Getty Images.

US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks at a Democratic party 'Women Win' early vote rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on October 28, 2016. The FBI dealt Hillary Clinton's seemingly unstoppable White House campaign a stunning blow Friday by reopening a probe into her use of a private email server while secretary of state. Photo credit: AFP / Jewel SAMAD / Getty Images.

A police officer stands atop a hill ahead of a campaign rally with Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential nominee, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S., on Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Trump enthusiastically greeted the explosive return of Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server to the presidential race just minutes after the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced its decision to review messages newly discovered as part of a separate inquiry. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg via Getty Images.

A liberated sheperd with his family and livestock left his village to safety after Peshmerga forces entered his village, on October 25, 2016. The Kurdish forces of Peshmerga have surrounded a number of villages at the foot of the mountain Bashiqa waiting to weaken the forces of ISIS found in them. The small villages are constantly under artillery and air forces strikes, and sporadic gunfire exchanged especially during the night. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

People shop for pumpkins from the pumpkin patch at Cal Poly Pomona in Pomona, California on October 28, 2016 ahead of Halloween on Monday October 31. Photo credit: AFP / Frederic J. BROWN / Getty Images.

Chocolate based deserts created by two major French and Japanese pastry chefs are presented on October 25, 2016, in Abidjan using cocoa from Ivory Coast, the world's largest producer of the bean, as part of a program of sustainable development initiated by the French chocolatier Cemoi. Photo credit: AFP / ISSOUF SANOGO / Getty Images.