Sunday, June 18, 2017

Global Food, Farming, and Agriculture Photos June 18, 2017

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


Mahmut Turkoglu (52), a farmer poses for a photo with his 30-year-old agricultural engineer son Caglar Turkoglu, who had chosen the same field of profession with his father following his lead, in Ankara, Turkey on June 16, 2017. Fathers, sometimes shape the future of their children directing their career and profession choices. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

Customers eat lunch outside a Whole Foods Market Inc. location in Naperville, Illinois, U.S., on Friday, June 16, 2017. Amazon.com Inc. will acquire Whole Foods Market Inc. for $13.7 billion, a bombshell of a deal that catapults the e-commerce giant into hundreds of physical stores and fulfills a long-held goal of selling more groceries. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

A drone view of farmer workers during harvest wheat near a photovoltaic panels in San Pietro Vernotico, South of Italy, on June 10, 2017. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Sheep are penned up at a farm in the Tramontana mountain range village of Escorca on Mallorca Island on June 11, 2017 before being shorn. The annual event sees regional farmers gather their flocks of sheep, who have roamed free throught the year, for a communal shearing that attracts proffessional shearers from all over the globe. Photo credit: AFP / JAIME REINA / Getty Images.

Indian farmers of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) listen to a speech during a protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Madhaya Pradesh state government in New Delhi on June 15, 2017. Madhya Pradesh is one of several largely agricultural Indian states that have suffered disappointing rains and crop failures in recent years. Thousands of farmers in the state governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have for days been calling for loan waivers and a floor price for crops as economic and weather conditions pinch profits. Photo credit: AFP / PRAKASH SINGH / Getty Images.

Pakistani labourers pick lychees from a tree at a house in Islamabad on June 15, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / AAMIR QURESHI / Getty Images.

Loaves of bread seen in the pavilion of an interregional food fair in Moscow's Semyonovskaya Square. Photo credit: TASS / Artyom Geodakyan / Getty Images.

A woman holds a basket with cherries at an interregional food fair in Moscow's Semyonovskaya Square. Farmers and agricultural producers from 20 regions of Russia have taken part in the event. Photo credit: TASS / Artyom Geodakyan / Getty Images.

Bangladesh peoples visits the National Fruit exhibition at Agricultural Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on June 16, 2017. Bangladesh Agriculture Minister organized a National Fruit exhibition from June 16 to June 18 at Agricultural Institute in Dhaka. Many Government and Privet organization participants with National and International fruits the National Fruit exhibition in Bangladesh. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

An elderly woman from the village of Dvorets, Luninets District, Brest Region, Belarus, picking strawberries. Photo credit: TASS / Viktor Drachev / Getty Images.

Eggs vendor in the street market, a scene from a daily life in Fes during the Ramadan 2017. On Friday, June 16, 2017, in Fes, Morocco. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Designs created using different varieties of rice are seen behind a viewing platform at a farm in Shenyang in China's northeast Liaoning province on June 14, 2017. Varieties of different coloured rice were used in the designs, which aim to promote tourism in the area and boost the income of local farmers. Photo credit: AFP / STR / China Out / Getty Images.

Organic tomatoes are offered for sale at an Aldi grocery store on June 12, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Aldi has announced plans to open 900 new stores in the United States in the next five years. The $3.4 billion capital investment would create 25,000 jobs and make the grocery chain the third largest in the nation behind Wal-Mart and Kroger. Photo credit: Scott Olson / Getty Images.

Indonesian Muslims prepare porridge for break fasting at Sabilurrosyad Mosque, Yogyakarta, Indonesia on June 16, 2017. This place has a tradition to break the fast by eating porridge. During the month of Ramadan, Sabilurrosyad mosque provide food menu porridge made from rice and coconut milk for break fasting. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

In this picture taken on June 16,2017, an Indian worker dries vermicelli, a traditional sweet dish, ahead of Eid Al Fitr festival, at a factory, in the old streets of Allahabad. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Edible marijuana infused product s by Dixie are displayed at the Cannabis World Congress Conference on June 16, 2017 in New York City. Billed as 'the leading trade show and conference for the legalized cannabis, medical marijuana, and industrial hemp industries,' the 4th annual conference brings together dozens of both small and large businesses involved in the growing hemp and marijuana market. Photo credit: Spencer Platt / Getty Images.

Peter DeWolf pours chocolate on top of toffee at Red Rocks Toffee Company on June 16, 2017, in Morrison, Colorado. Red Rocks Toffee Company makes all of their toffee in house and sells both inshore and through their website. Photo credit: Denver Post / Seth McConnell / Getty Images.