Sunday, April 9, 2017

International Farm and Food Photos April 9, 2017

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


Chinese villagers look on as an agricultural drone is used to spray pesticide on crops in a village in Chiping county, east China's Shandong province on April 6, 2017. Developing Asian countries will drive the world economy in the next two years, the Asian Development Bank said on April 6, but it warned of uncertainties from the United States and Europe. Photo credit: AFP / STR / China OUT / Getty Images.

Sowing spring barley during agricultural works at the Krasnokutskoye seed farm. Photo credit: TASS / Valery Matytsin / Getty Images.

Tugboats sit outside wheat storage towers at the Lazaro Cardenas Port in Michaocan, Mexico, on Monday, April 3, 2017. By the final phase, Mexico's largest semi-automated terminal APM Terminals Lazaro Cardenas, total investment will cost $900 million USD. Photo credit: Susana Gonzalez / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

A woman carries a bowl of peppers harvested from Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)-supported farms at Jere community, 11 km from Maiduguri, in Borno state, northeast Nigeria, on April 6, 2017. Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva will arrive tomorrow in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, to hightlight the need to support returnees, internally displaced families and host communities in the effort geared to restoring agriculture-based livelihoods, improving food security and nutrition conditions of most vulnerable families in northeast Nigeria. Photo credit: AFP / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / Getty Images.

Farmer Habib Bukar speaks about tomatoes harvested from Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)-supported farms at Jere community, 11 km from Maiduguri, in Borno state, northeast Nigeria, on April 6, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / Getty Images.

This picture taken on April 3, 2017 shows female farmers braiding sliced bamboo rings to make votive items, which they will sell to earn extra income, as they look after their families' cows along the Duong river in the northern province of Bac Ninh. Photo credit: AFP / HOANG DINH Nam / Getty Images.

An Indian labourer sorts bananas at a wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Chennai on April 6, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / ARUN SANKAR / Getty Images.

Fish drying open area at the fish industry Area . The coast of the Bay of Bengal in Sunderbans delta, West Bengal, India on 2nd April 2017. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

A villager sits in his bullock cart as he transports compost to apply at his agricultural field outskirts of the eastern Indian city Bhubaneswar, India, on April 3, 2017. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Indian farmers examine their damaged wheat crop after days of heavy rain and strong winds on the outskirts of Jalandhar on April 6, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / SHAMMI MEHRA / Getty Images.

Workers collect tea leaves at an organic tea base at Shaoshui Town of Quanzhou County on April 2, 2017 in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. Spring tea welcomes harvest in many parts of China. Photo credit: J. Kempin / Getty Images.

Herdwick sheep with names including 'Red Ram', 'Mint Sauce', 'Woolly Jumper', 'No Ewe Turn' and 'Ed Shearing' take part in the 'Lamb National' race during the Spring Raceday at Ascot Racecourse on April 2, 2017 in Ascot, England. Photo credit: Max Mumby / Indigo / Getty Images.

Workers arrange mocks tombs at a grave gardening display during a press preview of the International Gardening Show (IGA - Internationale Garten Ausstellung)in Berlin on April 7, 2017. Organisers are expecting some 2 million enthusiasts to visit the show spread over 100 hectares in Berlin's north-eastern district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf. The show opens from 13 April to 15 October 2017. Photo credit: AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL / Getty Images.

L.A. Zoo Gorillas treated to a vegetarian feast by top L.A. chefs at the Los Angeles Zoo on April 6, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Photo credit: FilmMagic / Tasia Wells / Getty Images.