Sunday, October 8, 2017

Global Food and Agriculture Photos October 8, 2017

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

U.S.A.
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A boy bends down to get a closer look at a pregnant cow at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in Gaithersburg, Md., United States on August 19, 2017. Livestock are often showcased at fairs and there are competitions for farmers and breeders to show off their animals. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.
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Workers remove dead chickens from cages after Hurricane Maria at the Corporacion Avicola Morovis Inc. facility in Morovis, Puerto Rico, on Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. President Donald Trump's visit to Puerto Rico offers a chance to show his commitment to rebuilding an island that remains almost completely without power and short on food, water, medicine and other supplies nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria. Photo credit: Alex Wroblewski / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

E.U.
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A view of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lavaux with its terraced vineyards above Lake Geneva on October 5, 2017 near Chexbres, western Switzerland. Photo credit: AFP / Fabrice COFFRINI / Getty Images.
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Farmers and their cattle on a boat make their way past the St Bartholomae chapel on the lake Koenigssee near Schoenau in the Bavarian Alps, southern Germany, during the so-called 'Viehscheid' (cattle drive) returning from the mountain pastures, on October 7, 2017. During the traditional 'Almabtrieb' event, cow herds are brought from alpine pastures, where they stay during the summer, to their stables in the valley. Photo credit: AFP / Christof STACHE / Getty Images.
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The mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, participates in the inauguration of the Farmer's Market of San Teodoro at Circus Maximus on 6 October 2017 in Rome, Italy. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.
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Bags of scallops are stacked at the port of Ouistreham, near Caen, northwestern France on October 5, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / Getty Images.
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Theo Grataloup (R), 10 years old boy with serious congenital malformations, poses with his poney and his mother Sabine Grataloup (L), on October 5, 2017 in Moidieu-Detourbe near Vienne southeastern France. Theo's parents decided to prosecute manufacturers of glyphosate-based herbicides, including the US giant Monsanto, which they claim are responsible for their son's disability. Photo credit: AFP / JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK / Getty Images.
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Farmer Verity Bachelor walks through the new pumpkin crop at 'PYO Pumpkins' on October 4, 2017 in Hoo, England. The company began in 2009 and allows families to visit the site to pick their own pumpkins, ahead of Halloween events on October 31. Photo credit: Leon Neal / Getty Images.
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A veterinarian (C) gives a drip to a cattle at the Sommet de lElevage livestock show in Cournon dAuvergne, near Clermont-Ferrand, central France, on October 5, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / Thierry Zoccolan / Getty Images.
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A delicatessen shop at the Farmer's Market of San Teodoro al Circo Massimo, the products are traditional products of the territory directly from farmers, breeders and shepherds producers to consumers. There are also products from the regions affected by the earthquake last year on October 6, 2017 in Rome, Italy. Photo credit: Corbis News / Stefano Montesi / Getty Images.

LATIN AMERICA
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Farmers are seen during the harvest of the flower of Cempasuchil for distribution in markets to decorate the offerings on the Day of the Dead, more than 250 thousand flowers of Cempasuchil 'Tagetes erecta' are harvested on the year on October 06, 2017 in Xochimilco, Mexico. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.
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People shop at the Municipal Market of Sao Paulo in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil October 5, 2017. After the economy advanced in the second quarter, financial market economists reinforced the positive outlook for the Brazilian economy. In 2017, the estimate for the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose from 0.39% to 0.50%. The estimate for inflation this year fell again, from 3.45% to 3.38%. In 2018, the bet is that inflation will fall to 4.18%, compared to an earlier projection of 4.20%. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

GAZA
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Palestinian women work on the industry of presssed date in Dair Al Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 4, 2017. One of them supervises the project said that they rent date farms and then they pick the date and send it to the place for pressing, drying and packing, after all they send it to the markets. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

INDIA
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An Indian grass mat vendor speaks on a phone as he waits for customers at a market in Chennai on October 6, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / ARUN SANKAR / Getty Images.
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Indian farmers bury themselves in pits and hold the placards in Hindi reads Chief minister down down and free our land and Hail the Soldier, Hail the Farmer during a protest against their land acquisition, at Nindar village, about 20 kilometer from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 06 October 2017. Hundreds of farmers have been protesting against the government plan for their land acquisition and do not want to give their land as they use it for agriculture, media report said. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

BALI
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Farmers work in a rice field in the Abang subdistrict of Karangasem regency on Bali island on October 7, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / SONNY TUMBELAKA / Getty Images.