Sunday, June 4, 2017

Global Food and Agriculture Photos June 4, 2017

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


Domestic livestock get water from private watering tanks on state land, outside federal disengaged horse management areas on May 31, 2017 outside Milford, Utah. The BLM, state officials and ranchers all over the Western United States are struggling with what to do about and how to control the burgeoning horse population in the west. Photo credit: George Frey / Getty Images.

This photo taken on May 27, 2017 shows Indian milkmen waiting on a platform as a train arrives as they work to supply villages surrounding Jalandhar in northern Punjab state. Indian milkmen in Punjab take the public trains each day to transport dairy products from farms to the villages surrounding Jalandhar. Photo credit: AFP / SHAMMI MEHRA / Getty Images.

A potato producer holds a varity of native potato at a local market in Lima on May 31, 2017. Potatoes, one of the world's largest food crops, are believed to have first been cultivated by the Inca Indians in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia around 8,000 to 5,000 BC. Peru is the largest producer of potatoes in Latin America. Photo credit: AFP / ERNESTO BENAVIDES / Getty Images.

Dozens of red kites prey on locusts in a hay field as a farmer cuts hay near Lannemezan in the French department of the Hautes-Pyrénées on 26 May 2017. One can see the Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the foreground. Hautes-Pyrénées. France. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

A vendor, left, speaks to a customer at a roadside stall selling lychees in Chiang Mai, Thailand on Monday, May 29, 2017. Photo credit: Taylor Weidman / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

This picture taken on May 26, 2017 shows a farmer collecting dried paddy on a rice field on the outskirts of Hanoi. Photo credit: AFP / HOANG DINH Nam / Getty Images.

Pakistani vendor arranges bananas at a fruit and vegetable market in Karachi on May 26, 2017. Pakistan's economy expanded almost 5.3 percent in the last year, the country's finance minister said May 25, as gross domestic product crossed $300 billion for the first time. The growth rate, the highest in a decade, comes amid a construction boom linked to a $50-billion Chinese investment plan to upgrade transport and power infrastructure, and as the country's overall security situation has improved. Photo credit: AFP / ASIF HASSAN / Getty Images.

Syrian men including district council laborers collect waste to product organic fertilizer in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria on May 22, 2017. Farmers product organic fertilizer on their own initiatives because pesticides are not allowed to enter Eastern Ghouta surrounded by the regime forces. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

Indian farmers travel on their buffalo carts through rain at Burha Mayong village in Morigaon district of Assam state, some 45kms away from Guwahati, on June 3, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / Biju BORO / Getty Images.

Organic Red Lentils that are packaged at the Golden Store Support Center the are stocked and ready at the Lakewood-based Natural Grocers that is opening its new Denver Design District store on May 31, the new store fits in with grocers future plans. May 30, 2017 in Denver, Colorado. Photo credit: Denver Post / Joe Amon / Getty Images.