Sunday, December 3, 2017

Global Food and Agriculture Photos December 3, 2017

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

U.S.A.
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Workers load freshly harvested Christmas trees into a semi trailer at Brown's Tree Farm in Muncy, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. People looking for Christmas trees this year may find them hard to come by or about 10 percent more expensive than last year. Tree sellers say that markets tied to the financial crisis, and exaggerated by the recovery, are driving up the prices. Photo credit: Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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A sea otter snacks on a frozen holiday treat during the Aquarium of the Pacifics Holiday Treats for the Animals festival in Long Beach, California on November 30, 2017. The Aquarium of the Pacific is home to more than 11,000 animals and includes an Ocean Science Center and the Molina Animal Care Center. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.
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A sign is seen on a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant on November 28, 2017 in Miami, Florida. Today, Arby's Restaurant Group announced it reached a deal to acquire Buffalo Wild Wings for $2.4 billion in cash. Photo credit: Joe Raedle / Getty Images.

NEW ZEALAND
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A general view of the Fonterra buildin is seen on December 1, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. Fonterra has been ordered to pay Danone 105 million euros ($183 million) in damages for food safety failures following arbitration in a Singapore court. The French food company sued Fonterra over the whey protein contamination and botulism scare in 2013, which resulted in the recall of 67,000 cans of Danone's Karicare infant formula brand. Fonterra shareholders' fund units and listed bonds were halted from trading earlier today ahead of the damages announcement. Photo credit: Hannah Peters / Getty Images.

INDIA
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An Indian vegetable seller sorts onions at a roadside market in Siliguri on November 28, 2017. The price of onions have risen sharply in the past few months, quadrupling to as much as 65 rupees a kilogram in some parts of the country and turning the vegetable into an unaffordable luxury for the poor. Photo credit: AFP / DIPTENDU DUTTA / Getty Images.
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Variety of Cherry fruits on display at the Manipur 1St Cherry Blossom Festival cum Flower festival at Mao Gate, Indian north eastern state of Manipur. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

E.U.
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A view of a Donuters shop window with different kind of donuts on display for sale. On Monday, 27 November 2017, on Georges Quay, in Dublin, Ireland. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.
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A picture taken on December 1, 2017 shows a production line in Laita dairy company's infant milk new factory in Crehen, western France. Photo credit: AFP / DAMIEN MEYER / Getty Images.
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Cans of vegetal 'foie gras'. The L214 association did a 'speed-dating' about foie gras to have people try false 'foie gras' on the main square of Toulouse, the Capitole. The L214 association became famous for its numerous films made in slaughterhouses. Their films depicted torture and abuse of livestock in some slaughterhouses. Toulouse. France. November 25th 2017. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.
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People sell truffles at a truffle market, on November 27, 2017 in Sainte-Alvere, near Bordeaux southwestern France, at the opening of the annual Dordogne winter market. Photo credit: AFP / MEHDI FEDOUACH / Getty Images.
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People look at agricultural materials presented during the SITEVI, the international fair for the wine, fruits and vegetables growing sectors, at the exhibition hall in Montpellier, southern France, on November 30, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / PASCAL GUYOT / Getty Images.

UKRAINE
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko lays spikelets of wheat to the Holodomor memorial during a ceremony in memory of the victims of the Holodomor famine in Kiev on November 25, 2017. Ukraine on November 25 marked 84 years since the Stalin-era Holodomor famine, one of the darkest pages in its entire history that left millions dead and which is regarded by many as a genocide. The 1932-33 famine took place as harvests dwindled and Soviet leader Josef Stalin's police enforced the brutal policy of collectivising agriculture by requisitioning grain and other foodstuffs. Photo credit: AFP / Genya SAVILOV / Getty Images.

INDONESIA
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Evacuation of livestock due to the impact of volcanic ash Mount Agung at Sibetan Village on 1st December 2017 in Karangasem district, Bali, Indonesia. The volcanic eruption of the Mount Agung has been ongoing for days, causing evacuations and stranding tourists. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

VIET NAM
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A farmer sits selling corn and fruit on the side of a highway in the outskirts of Hanoi on December 1, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / HOANG DINH NAM / Getty Images.
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Performers beat drums during the opening ceremony of the first McDonald's fast food chain restaurant in the capital Hanoi on December 2, 2017. Global burger behemoth McDonald's on December 2 opened its first branch in the historic heart of communist Hanoi. The restaurant is the first outside of the southern commercial hub Ho Chi Minh City, where 16 branches have already opened. Photo credit: AFP / HOANG DINH NAM / Getty Images.

PAKISTAN
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Pakistani mourners carry the coffin of a victim from an agriculture training institute during a funeral a day after an attack by Taliban militants, in Bannu on December 2, 2017. Nine people were killed and dozens injured on December 1 when Taliban militants stormed a training institute in the northwestern city of Peshawar as Pakistan marked the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, officials said. Photo credit: AFP / KARIM ULLAH / Getty Images.

PALESTINE
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Palestinian farmers harvest eggplants (aubergine) in a field on November 27, 2017, east of Gaza City. Photo credit: AFP / MOHAMMED ABED / Getty Images.

CHINA
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Villagers build a farmyard with corn cobs in Liangjiazi Village on November 27, 2017 in Jilin City, north-east China. Villagers built the farmyard to celebrate the corn harvest and to attract tourists. Photo credit: VCG / Getty Images.

AFRICA
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A resettled farmer opens a furrow in his field with an ox-drawn plough on Eden farm where Deon Theron ran a successful dairy farm before he was forced off the property during the Robert Mugabe lead land reform programme on November 27, 2017 at Beatrice, Zimbabwe. Standing outside the gates of the farmhouse from which he was evicted from in 2008, white Zimbabwean Deon Theron knows that he will never get his land back.But he does believe that Robert Mugabe's fall after almost 40 years in power could lead the new government to encourage white farmers to play a part in reviving the country's key agricultural sector. Photo credit: AFP / JEKESAI NJIKIZANA / Getty Images.