Sunday, September 24, 2017

Global Food and Agriculture Photos September 24, 2017

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

U.S.A.
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U.S. first lady Melania Trump joins children from the Boys and Girls Club of Washington in planting and harvesting vegetables in the White House Kitchen Garden September 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. The White House Kitchen Garden is a tradition started by former first lady Michelle Obama. Photo credit: Win McNamee / Getty Images.

LATIN AMERICA
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Volunteers prepare and distribute free food for people who have been evicted from their homes two days after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake jolted central Mexico killing more than 250 hundred people, damaging buildings, knocking out power and causing alarm throughout the capital on September 21, 2017 in Mexico City, Mexico. The earthquake comes 32 years after a magnitude-8.0 earthquake hit on September 19, 1985. Photo credit: LatinContent WO / Hector Vivas / Getty Images.

E.U.
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Beekeepers work on a beehive in Calais, France on September 21, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / PHILIPPE HUGUEN / Getty Images.
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A picture taken on September 22, 2017 shows a banana tree field destroyed in the locality of Moravie, in Capesterre-Belle-Eau, after Hurrican Maria struck the island of Guadeloupe France will declare a natural disaster for Guadeloupe on September 22 after the island was hit by Hurricane Maria, a move that is a vital step for victims to secure compensation, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on September 20. Under French law, companies or individuals have 10 days in which to file a compensation claim with their insurers for loss in an event that has been officially declared a natural disaster. Photo credit: AFP / Helene Valenzuela / Getty Images.
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Farmers take part in the National Ploughing Championships, Ireland's largest agriculture show in Tullamore, Ireland on September 19, 2017. Brexit hung like a cloud over Ireland's biggest agricultural fair this week, with the country's food and farming industries, heavily reliant on their British neighbour, feeling the impact already. Photo credit: AFP / PAUL FAITH / Getty Images.
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French mushroom farmer Maxime Quemin inspects a bag containing recycled coffee grounds, onto which oyster mushrooms grow in his underground farm in Marseille, on September 19, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / Getty Images.
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The aerial view taken on September 18,2017 with a drone shows banana plantations at the Hermigua valley on the Canary Island of La Gomera. Photo credit: AFP / DESIREE MARTIN / Getty Images.

TURKEY
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A combine harvester works through a corn field during the autumn season in Torbali district of Izmir, Turkey on September 20, 2017. Corn production sector of Izmir's Torbali district made a contribution of 12% to the total amount of Turkey. 47 thousand decare field produce 800 thousand tons of fodder corn which is for both bovine animal and small cattle are sending to factories. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.
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Corns, grown by 12 years farmer Halis Katman, are seen in Incesu village of Aksaray, Turkey on September 15, 2017. Halis Katman decided to grow colourful corns after watching a documentary about them. In the wake of researches, Katman contacted the producers and imported the corn seeds from Oklahoma, United States then started to produce these colourful corns 6 months ago on a 500 square meter area with the help of his wife. Katman harvested the first batch of corns composed with the colours of yellow, blue, pink, red and orange. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.
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Women put Kirkagac melons in nets in Manisa province of Turkey on September 22, 2017. Registered Kirkagac melons attract attention of foreign countries and domestic buyers. Part of expected 30 thousand melon crops are being exported to European countries. Some Kirkagac melons, which are produced in up country, are being stored to be sold during the winter after tied from their stem with cotton. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

CHINA
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A QR code design created using different varieties of rice is seen in a paddy during the harvest season in Shenyang in China's northeast Liaoning province on September 20, 2017. The design aims to promote tourism in the area and boosts the income of local farmers. Photo credit: AFP / STR / Getty Images.

INDIA
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A Kashmiri farmer makes hay bales in a paddy a paddy field during harvesting season on September 22, 2017 in Budgam, west of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Paddy production has gone down in Kashmir during the recent years largely due to unplanned and rapid urbanisation, with the area under rice crop cultivation coming down from 122 hectares in 2010-11 to 112 hectares in 2013, according to an economic survey to the state government. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.
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Women with a traditional hat "Jhampi" work at an agricultural paddy field in Bhubaneswar, India, on September 16, 2017. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

RUSSIA
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Russia's first deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich (L) and minister of agriculture Alexander Tkachev (C front) look at geese at the opening of VDSKh, an exhibition of Russian-made farm products, at the GUM shopping arcade. Photo credit: Vyacheslav Prokofyev / TASS / Getty Images.
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People attend the 2017 Golden Autumn food festival. Photo credit: Artyom Geodakyan / TASS / Getty Images.
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Workers harvest grapes at the Elbuzd wine estate. In the year 2010, the estate bought young vines of Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, and Gewurztraminer, which were planted into 25 hectares of fertile soil. Photo credit: Valery Matytsin / TASS / Getty Images.

COLORADO
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Fall is arriving along the Colorado Trail on Kenosha Pass on September 20, 2017 in Park County, Colorado. Photo credit: Denver Post / RJ Sangosti / Getty Images.