Sunday, October 1, 2017

Global Food and Agriculture Photos October 1, 2017

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

U.S.A.
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The winning pumpkin from Woody Lancaster, 71 of Topsfield, weighing 2003.5 pounds sits at the 199th Topsfield Fair in Topsfield, Massachusetts on September 29, 2017. The Topsfield Fair is the oldest in the United States and was founded in 1818. Photo credit: Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP / Getty Images.

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Downed and leafless trees are seen after the passing of Hurricane Maria on September 29, 2017 in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico experienced widespread damage including most of the electrical, gas and water grid as well as agriculture after Hurricane Maria, a category 4 hurricane, passed through. Photo credit: Joe Raedle / Getty Images.

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Cows graze at a dairy farm damaged after Hurricane Maria in Rio Nuevo, Puerto Rico, on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. Photo credit: John Taggart / Bloomberg / Getty Images.


E.U.
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People visit the 'Pumpkin World' in the village of Nova Ves, Czech Republic, on September 26, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / RADEK MICA / Getty Images.

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A drone view of a Corn field Labyrinth, near Kobierzyce, Poland, September 28, 2017. The Corn field Labyrinth is made of 100 thousand corn plants 3 meters high, planted in 13 vertebras on an area of 1.5 hectares. The corn maze is the second biggest maze ever made in Poland and will be open until the end of October 2017. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

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A picture taken on September 27, 2017 near Prads-Haute-Bleone in the French Alps shows a flock of sheep rounded up into a pen to protect them from wolf attacks. Photo credit: AFP / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / Getty Images.

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Pickers use a rope to climb down a steep hill during the grape harvest of the Pinot Gris Grand Cru Rangen, on September 27, 2017 in Vieux-Thann, eastern France. The rows of the vineyard overhangs the city with a gradient of 45 to 100 percent. Photo credit: AFP / PATRICK HERTZOG / Getty Images.


SERBIA
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A boy rides his bicycle past threads of red paprika in the village of Donja Lokosnica, near the city of Leskovac, Southern Serbia, on September 25, 2017. Donja Lokosnica is the Serbian 'capital of paprika', since almost all of the 1300 inhabitants are involved in growing paprika. As autumn approaches, the whole village turns red, because of the many threads of dried peppers that hang around Lokosnica, waiting for their winter use. Each of these paprika threads is handmade, still dried according to traditional techniques, assisted solely by the sun and fresh air. Photo credit: AFP / ANDREJ ISAKOVIC / Getty Images.


BELARUS
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A family harvest potatoes on their land on September 23, 2017 in Karelitschy, Belarus. Photo credit: Pierre Crom / Getty Images.


PALESTINE
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A Palestinian farmer harvests dates from a palm tree in Dair Al Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 28, 2017. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.


PAKISTAN
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Pakistani farmers prepare to load bananas on a truck in a field in Nawabshah district in Sindh on September 28, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / ASIF HASSAN / Getty Images.


INDONESIA
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Villagers evacuate their livestocks from Karangasem Regency, Bali, Indonesia, on September 28, 2017. Based on data from National Counseling Posts in Karangasem, it is estimated that the number of cattle in danger-zone is about 30 thousand cattle. Approximately 10,000 cattle have been evacuated by the residents, and some are sold. About 20,000 cattle need to be evacuated from the four Karangasem districts in the red zones of Mount Agung, which would be directly affected in the event of an eruption. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.


CHINA
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This photo taken on September 26, 2017 shows a worker drying ginseng at a factory in Tonghua in China's northeastern Jilin province. Tonghua, located in the Changbaishan Mountain area, is China's important ginseng production and export base. Jilin province produces about 70 percent of the world's total ginseng output. Photo credit: AFP / STR / Getty Images.


IVORY COAST
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Men sort cola nuts on september 25, 2017, in Anyama. Ivory coast is the first exporting country for cola, and second producer after Nigeria. Photo credit: AFP / SIA KAMBOU / Getty Images.


INDIA
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Indian farmers shout-slogans while sitting along train tracks during a protest against the central and state governments for not implementing their demands, at the Manawala railway station, about 12 Km from Amritsar, on September 29, 2017. Photo credit: NARINDER NANU / AFP / Getty Images.

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Indian farmers pick chrysanthemums from a garden in Vaddarahalli village, some 75kms north-west of Bangalore on September 23, 2017. The flowers are widely used for floral decoration and in garlands during festive occasions like weddings, religious ceremonies and also during funeral procession making it a sought after crop throughout the year. Photo credit: AFP / MANJUNATH KIRAN / Getty Images.

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A Kashmiri farmer picks fresh apples from a tree in an orchard during harvesting season on September 25, 2017 in Shupain, south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. The road from Srinagar to south and north Kashmir is lined with apple orchards. Visitors can take stroll and buy cases of fresh apples in July to October months. Kashmir's orchards produce 1.2 million tons of apples annually, the second largest in India. 800,000 tons of the produce is exported to other parts of India and the rest consumed locally. Kashmiri apples have gained popularity among the people across the globe for its unique yet delicious taste. There are around 113 varieties of Kashmiri apples that the valley can boast of. Experts report that apple production in Kashmir despite the low turnout demand is expected to be in higher from Asian markets due to recent weather issues have had poor apple crops. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.


RUSSIA
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A worker transports boxes with apples harvested at the Sady Baksana [Baksan Gardens] agricultural complex. Photo credit: Denis Abramov / TASS / Getty Images.

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A figure of a cow made of pumpkins and straw at the 2017 Golden Autumn food festival. Photo credit: Artyom Geodakyan / TASS / Getty Images.


UKRAINE
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Workers unload wagons full of freshly harvested sugar beets at the ED&F Man Ltd. refinery in Nikolaev, Ukraine, on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. More sugar is coming to the world market from October, when the European Union ends a system of quotas that capped production and exports. Photo credit: Vincent Mundy / Bloomberg / Getty Images.


COLORADO
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DENVER, CO - Pumpkin fries made from a Jarrahdale pumpkin on September 27, 2017. The cooked flesh of a Jarrahdale, is not stringy and tastes slightly nutty (cashew-like) with a cucumber-y aroma. Photo credit: Denver Post / Amy Brothers / Getty Images.