Sunday, May 14, 2017

Global Food and Agriculture Photos May 14, 2017

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


A farmer works at a suburban agriculture farm in Cerro Municipality in Havana, on May 9, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / ADALBERTO ROQUE / Getty Images.

In this picture taken on May 9, 2017, a farmer prepares to feed his ducks on his family farm in the northern province of Bac Ninh. Photo credit: AFP / HOANG DINH NAM / Getty Images.

Egyptian workers harvest wheat in the village of Shamma in the Egyptian Nile Delta province of al-Minufiyah, on May 6, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / Getty Images.

A tractor sprays a wheat field with fertilizer in Buntingford, U.K., on Friday, May 5, 2017. The U.K. government needs to agree a transition deal with the European Union to prevent the 'potentially disastrous' effects on the nation's farms of trading on World Trade Organization terms, according to a parliamentary report. Photo credit: Chris Ratcliffe / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

Flowering rapeseed fields stand in warm weather on May 12, 2017 near Muncheberg, Germany. Rapeseed, which is harvested to process its oil, is among the main agricultural products in the state of Brandenburg. Germany is the world's fifth largest producer of rapeseed. Photo credit: Sean Gallup / Getty Images.

Workers package bricks of tea leaves for export at a brick tea company in Wuyi, in China's eastern Zhejiang province on May 11, 2017. As well as exporting tea products, the company is also developing tea culture tourism, with a tea culture museum, and tea health culture park. The company plans to export on trade routes being developed as part of China's Belt and Road trade initiative. China hosts on May 14 a summit showcasing its ambitious drive to revive ancient Silk Road trade routes and lead a new era of globalisation, just as Washington turns inward in favour of 'America First' policies. Photo credit: AFP / STR / China OUT / Getty Images.

Former US President Barack Obama speaks during 'Seeds&Chips: The Global Food Innovation Summit' forum in Milan, Italy on May 9, 2017. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

Cambodian women buy vegetables at a market in Phnom Penh on May 9, 2017. Cambodia will host the World Economic Forum on Asean in Phnom Penh from May 10 to 12. Photo credit: AFP / TANG CHHIN SOTHY / Getty Images.

Chef Eric Skokan owner of two restaurants in Boulder, the Black Cat and Bramble & Hare, that are farm to table from the families Certified Organic Black Cat Farm in Longmont with one of his layers. May 8, 2017, Longmont, Colorado. Photo credit: Denver Post / Joe Amon / Getty Images.

A herring cooked at a gastronomic festival of herring from the Don River in Kumzhenskaya Street, Russia. Photo credit: Valery Matytsin / TASS / Getty Images.