Women in agriculture, photos from around the world

Iraqi women farmers

Women work in a barley field in the village of Muaibira in Iraq © Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images

Israeli Druze women farmers

Israeli Druze women harvest Viognier grapes for the Golan Heights winery, which was founded over two decades ago on the volcanic plateau that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War © David Silverman/Getty Images

Va female farmer in Yunnan

A Va ethnic minority woman works on a field in Wengding village in Yunnan province, China © China Photos/Getty Images

Rice farmers, Iran

Sowing rice in a paddy field near Talesh, Iran © Majid/Getty Images

Palestinian olive farmers

A Palestinian woman collects fallen olives near the village of Hawarra in the West Bank © David Silverman/Getty Images

Female farmerrs in China

Chinese women lay hay in a grid to prevent sand from floating with the wind in the Baijitan Conservation Area's desert in China. Almost 800 million hectares of farmland have been turning into desert © Feng Li/Getty Images

Afghan women harvesting potatoes

Women harvest potatoes in Afghanistan. In the central highlands wheat and potatoes are the main crops. Most families grow enough to feed themselves for seven months a year but a high-carb diet of mostly bread and potatoes leads to malnutrition © Paula Bronstein /Getty Images

Saffron harvest in Afghanistan

A woman holds a Crocus stigma to separate Sativus, the saffron crocus, during the saffron harvest near the village of Goriyan in Herat, Afghanistan. Around 2500 farmers in eight provinces work on saffron farms for export mostly to India and some European countries © Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

Strawberry women farmers in Afghanistan

Afghan women pick strawberries at the Badam Bagh farm in Kabul. The women make about 5 dollars a day working at the 55 hectares farm that grows 22 kinds of fruits and vegetables © Paula Bronstein /Getty Images

Helping a mule give birth

Helping a mule give birth to Suffolk lamb triplets in Kirkcowan, Scotland. Carol McKenna farms beef and sheep on Gas Farm, which has been in her family for over 80 years. She is one of the growing number of women in the UK who are choosing a career in farming © Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images

Japanese female tea pickers

Women pick tea leaves at the Moriuchi Tea Farm in Shizuoka, Japan, an area responsible for 45 per cent of the country's overall production. From late April to early May farmers handpick Shincha (the first tea of the year), usually considered of the highest quality © Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Tibetan female yak herder

A Tibetan woman with her yak herd, a traditional source of income, at a camp for pickers of cordycep, also known as caterpillar fungus, in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai province © Kevin Frayer/Getty Images