Sunday, May 6, 2018

Global Food and Agriculture Photos May 6, 2018

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

NEW ZEALAND
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June Campbell-Teng, Philip Beach, Jeff Hatfield, Robyn Beach and Brent Anderson pose for a group photo as they celebrate World Naked Gardening Day at the Wellington Naturist Club in Upper Hutt, Wellington on May 5, 2018. - A handful of nude participants shook off the chilly weather to take part in the event, which has been held annually around the world since 2005. Photo credit: AFP / MARTY MELVILLE / Getty Images.

E.U.
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A special machine cultivates a large tulip field to separate the blossoms from the rest of the plant on May 2, 2018 in Magdeburg, Germany. The tulip bulbs are cleared and processed during the months of July and August. The manufacturer of flower bulbs in Saxony-Anhalt will cultivate 40 hectares this year with 10 different varieties of tulips. The tulip bulbs are marketed throughout Europe following the harvest. Photo credit: Jens Schlueter / Getty Images.
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Cows are seen in a field near Bourges, Central France on May 2, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / GUILLAUME SOUVANT / Getty Images.
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A tractor with a windrow is pictured on a field on May 01, 2018 in Schoenau-Berzdorf, Germany. Photo credit: Photothek / Florian Gaertner / Getty Images.
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A tractor with a manure spreader is pictured on April 30, 2018 in Arnsdorf, Germany. Photo credit: Photothek / Florian Gaertner / Getty Images.
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Wind turbines in a field of rape are pictured on April 30, 2018 in Schoepstal, Germany. Photo credit: Photothek / Florian Gaertner / Getty Images.
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A tracor with a measuring system 'GreenSeeker' is pictured on a field on April 30, 2018 in Meuselwitz, Germany. Photo credit: Photothek / Florian Gaertner / Getty Images.
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Shepherds take part in a demonstration against the release of bears in the Pyrenees on April 30, 2018 in Pau, southwestern France. Photo credit: AFP / IROZ GAIZKA / Getty Images.

LATIN AMERICA
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Poultry are sold along an avenue of Tegucigalpa, on May 2, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / ORLANDO SIERRA / Getty Images.

CHINA
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Large amounts of beehives hanging on cliff for bee-keeping on 30 April 2018 in Shennongjia,Hubei, China. Photo credit: TPG / Getty Images.

SOUTH AFRICA
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Russel Luck, co-founder of SwiftVee, an application which is part of the 12 African start ups selected for the first Google Launchpad Africa Accelerator Programme, poses in the SwiftVee offices, on April 30, 2018, in Cape Town. - SwiftVee is a South African online agri-platform which connects the livestock market with a network of farmers, buyers and sellers, to facilitate agricultural trading. Photo credit: AFP / RODGER BOSCH / Getty Images.

INDIA
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Indian toddy tapper Bisula Srinivas Goud climbs a palm tree to collect its sap and produce the alcoholic drink arrack, on the outskirts of Hyderabad on May 2, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / NOAH SEELAM / Getty Images.
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This photo taken on May 1, 2018 shows Indian farming labourer Shantaben Ambalal working in a corn crop field next to polluted water from a well tainted by chemical run-off from nearby industrial chemical plants in Istolabad village on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state. - Gujarati residents in Istolabad village and surrounding areas have described health problems from living and working around water that has been polluted by chemicals released from dozens of industrial plants in and around Ahmedabad. Villagers complain of skin problems and breathing trouble, and for farmers living in the area the polluted water has meant damaged crops as the same water is used to irrigate agricultural areas. Photo credit: AFP / SAM PANTHAKY / Getty Images.
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Indian labourers sort mangoes at the Gaddiannaram fruit market on the outskirts of Hyderabad on April 30, 2018. - India produces over 40 per cent of the world's mangoes, growing some 30 varieties commercially. Photo credit: AFP / NOAH SEELAM / Getty Images.

BANGLADESH
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Bangladeshi boatmen unload watermelons from the ferry on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 29, 2018. Hundreds of fruits traders across the country come to the Dhaka, the largest whole sell market to sell their fruits. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

UKRAINE
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A view of the Avis poultry plant farming domestic fowl, crops and producing eggs, over 200 staff, in the Lutugino District of the Lugansk Region. Photo credit: Valentin Sprinchak / TASS / Getty Images.
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Sorting eggs at the Avis poultry plant farming domestic fowl, crops and producing eggs, over 200 staff, in the Lutugino District of the Lugansk Region. Photo credit: Valentin Sprinchak / TASS / Getty Images.

RUSSIA
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Dried fish for sale at a wholesale and retail farmers' market in the city of Kerch. Photo credit: Sergei Malgavko / TASS / Getty Images.