Sunday, March 18, 2018

Global Food and Agriculture Photos March 18, 2018

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

U.S.A.
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Sonny Perdue, U.S. secretary of agriculture, left, speaks with Rick Perry, U.S. secretary of energy, before the start of a Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on infrastructure in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 14, 2018. The White House says Donald Trump will campaign to pass legislation this year to upgrade roads, bridges and other public works, as members of Congress from both parties say it will only happen with a push from the president. Photo credit: Zach Gibson / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Grapevines along Old Redwood Highway burned in the October 9 Tubbs Fire are viewed on March 12, 2018, in Santa Rosa, California. Officials are calling it the most destructive wildfire in the State's history, the Tubbs Fire roared through forested hillsides on October 9, 2017, before descending into densely populated neighborhoods, destroying more than 6,000 homes, out buildings, and businesses, resulting in an estimated $3 billion in damage, 24 deaths, and leaving thousands homeless. Photo credit: George Rose / Getty Images.

E.U.
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Residents shop for cheese at the President Wilson market on March 14, 2018 in Paris. Photo credit: AFP / Ludovic MARIN / Getty Images.
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A gardener at work among spring flowers at Kew Gardens, in Richmond, London, before much of the UK is set to experience cold temperatures and snow over the weekend. Photo credit: PA Images / Dominic Lipinski / Getty Images.

TURKEY
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A man works at a sea farming, where dentex and sea bream are being breed, in Izmir, Turkey on March 14, 2018. Along with the new investments to sea farming, Turkey outrun Greece, suffers with economic crisis, in 2016 and take the first place. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

INDONESIA
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Residents carry agricultural products beside a stream of tributaries filled with textile waste in Sukamaju, Majalaya, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, on March 15, 2018. About 500 factories are dominated by the textile industry is suspected of dumping waste into residential areas and farming residents. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

INDIA
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An Indian farmer adjusts a pipe to allow sewage treated water from the Fatehwadi canal in his field to save the paddy crop from drying at Lekhambha village, some 40 kms. from Ahmedabad on March 17, 2018. Indian farmers are using sewage treated water to save their winter crops after Gujarat's government has stopped water supply for irrigation purposes as the remaining water stock is reserved solely for drinking purposes. Photo credit: AFP / SAM PANTHAKY / Getty Images.
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Potato farmers seller in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, on 12 March 2018. The farmers are having a tough time selling their produce. The interest is accumulating and the debts are rising. Farmers complain that costs incurred on cultivating the crop are greater than the prices they are selling potatoes at, leading to heavy losses and rising debts. The Uttar Pradesh potato farmers are facing a problem of plenty.In the districts of Mathura, Aligarh, Agra, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Etawah, Kanpur, Farrukhabad and a few others, the rural populace is predominantly involved in potato farming. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

BANGLADESH
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Bamboo sticks are seen on a Bamboo market in Bangladesh, on 11 March 2018. Most of the bamboos are brought to the market from Gazipur, Mymensingh, Kishoreganj, and Tangail. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

PALESTINE
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Palestinian shepherds lead their flock through a field in the village of Salem east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on March 11, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / Getty Images.

RUSSIA
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Russian President Vladimir Putin tours the Lukyanenko National Centre of Grain in Krasnodar on March 12, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / SPUTNIK / Alexey NIKOLSKY / Getty Images.
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Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich views a display of sheafs of wheat at Pavel Lukyanenko National Centre for Grain. Photo credit: Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Getty Images.

SOUTH KOREA
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Farmers seed potatoes and Spring Onion with a farm machinery at the field in Hamchang, south of Seoul (about 170Km) Gyeongbuk Province, South Korea, on 17 March 2018. Farmers are busy with their work in the early spring. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.
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Farmers seed potatoes and Spring Onion with a farm machinery at the field in Hamchang, south of Seoul (about 170Km) Gyeongbuk Province, South Korea, on 17 March 2018. Farmers are busy with their work in the early spring. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.