Sunday, May 7, 2017

Global Food and Agriculture Photos May 7, 2017

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


Nepalese woman passing by carrying full basket of grass for her domestic animals at Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal on Thursday, May 04, 2017. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Fishing boats head out to sea from the port in Lianyungang, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on May 1, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / STR / Getty Images.

Indian Kashmiri women row boats carrying lotus roots for cattle through the polluted waters of Dal Lake in Srinagar on May 1, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / Getty Images.

Growing cucumbers in a greenhouse on Ukulhas Island, Maldives. Photo credit: Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Getty Images.

A recently pruned vineyard is finally experiencing a green spring as viewed on April 27, 2017, near Forestville, California. After record winter rainfall battered the North Coast, eliminating a five-year drought, hints of spring are finally appearing in this popular North Coast Wine Country tourist destination despite April rain showers. Photo credit: George Rose / Getty Images.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge bottle feeds 'Stinky' the lamb as she visits Farms for City Children on May 3, 2017 in Arlingham, England. Farms for City Children is a charity which offers children in the UK a chance to live and work on a real farm for a week. Photo credit: Max Mumby / Indigo / Getty Images.

In this photograph taken on April 26, 2017, farmers work on an oyster farm at Ture in Co Donegal on Lough Foyle, on the border with Northern Ireland (background) and Donegal. For many on the oyster-rich shores of the River Foyle estuary on the northern tip of Ireland, Britain's departure from the European Union cannot come soon enough. The hope is that Brexit will solve a decades-old sovereignty dispute over the waterway between British-ruled Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Photo credit: AFP / PAUL FAITH / Getty Images.

Cargo barges sit docked as they are loaded with grain at the European Bulk Services (E.B.S.) terminal at the Port of Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Since taking over Glencore Agriculture in 2002, Chris Mahoney has overseen the transformation of the unit into a standalone enterprise that generates more revenue from owning fixed assets in strategic locations than simply trading. Photo credit: Simon Dawson / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

Electra Jarvis (L), a Square Roots farmer, shows and sells some of her crops to a visitor at Square Roots Urban Growers on April 25, 2017 in New York. The urban farm craze is finding fertile ground in New York, where 10 young entrepreneurs are learning to grow greens and herbs without soil, bathed in an indoor, psychedelic light. Photo credit: AFP / DON EMMERT / Getty Images.

Cows walks from a barn after being milked on Hinchley's Dairy Farm on April 25, 2017 near Cambridge, Wisconsin. President Donald Trump today tweeted 'Canada has made business for our dairy farmers in Wisconsin and other border states very difficult. We will not stand for this.' Photo credit: Scott Olson / Getty Images.

A farmers carries a cow milking machine at a dairy farm in Granby, Quebec, Canada, on Saturday, April 22, 2017. Trade groups for U.S. dairy farmers have complained that a policy rolled out in Canada recently violates the trade agreement by creating incentives for Canadian processors to use local supplies. Photo credit: Christinne Muschi / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

A student takes measurements of an experimental rapeseed field to determine the emission values of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, not far from the small Bavarian village of Olching, southern Germany, on May 2, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / Christof STACHE / Getty Images.

'Bonnotte' potatoes are collected from a field in Noirmoutier-en-l'île, on the island of Noirmoutier, off the coast of Brittany, western France, on May 3, 2017. It is rare, ephemeral and prised by the great chefs for its unique taste: Noirmoutier's bonnotte, a potato harvested by hand, has become the prestige of the small island since its noticable return on to the dinner tables, over 20 years ago. Photo credit: AFP / LOIC VENANCE / Getty Images.

A woman shows a handful of seed to be sown on May 6, 2017 in Bordeaux during the 'Menu Grain' scheme designed to produce organic ancient varieties of corn and beans in urban areas which will be sold for consumption. Photo credit: AFP / NICOLAS TUCAT / Getty Images.

US President Donald speaks as Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue looks on during a roundtable with farmers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 25, 2017 in Washington, DC. During the meeting Trump signed the Executive Order Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America. Photo credit: Pool / Getty Images.

A shopper looks over the fresh vegetables section April 19, 2017 in a Price Chopper supermarket in South Burlington, Vermont. Price Chopper is a chain of supermarkets headquartered in Schenectady, New York. Photo credit: Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images.

A Jhum cultivation field is seen at Tseminyu, India north eastern state of Nagaland on Sunday, April 23, 2017. Over 70% of the state population depends on agriculture. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

An aerial view of rice paddy fields. Japan. Photo credit: TASS / Yuri Smityuk / Getty Images.

Plants growing in a garden, on 22nd April 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England. Photo credit: Richard Baker / Getty Images.

Yellow squash and jicama soup at Vail Hall on the campus of Johnson & Wales University on April 28, 2017, in Denver, Colorado. The CU School of Dental Medicine and Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation created the Frontier Center 4 Health, one of the first programs in the country to train dental, medical and pharmacy students to identify the connection between oral health and physical health. Photo credit: Denver Post / Seth McConnell / Getty Images.