TRAVEL PHOTOS

Agriculture Photos

Below are selected pictures of agriculture.

Except where noted, all images are the property of Rhett A. Butler, copyright 1994-2013. Contact me with questions regarding use, reproduction, or purchase of any of the pictures.

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Forest fragment within an oil palm plantation

Rice fields in Luang Prabang province

Aerial view of rice fields outside of Fort Dauphin [madagascar_3061]

Slash-and-burn agriculture

Rice paddies with the mountains of Ujung Kulon National Park behind

Extensive forest and cerrado clearing in the southern Amazon for cattle pasture and soy agriculture

Flooded rice fields at sunset [madagascar_5852]

Oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo

Green rice paddies in Udomxai province

Aerial view of shade-grown coffee in Costa Rica

Oil palm plantation and rainforest

Oil palm plantation with the rainforest of Gunung Leuser National Park in the background

Oxplowing a rice paddy

Soy field abutting against Amazon transition forest

Draining peatlands for rice cultivation [kalteng_0114]

Oil palm plantation and forest in Costa Rica [costa-rica-d_0624a]

Overhead view of forest clearing in the Colombian Amazon

New oil palm development in forest bordering Gunung Leuser National Park

Oil palm estate

Oil palm plantation established on former rainforest land

Slash-and-burn agriculture

Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0604]

Rice and palms in Madagascar [mcar_0088]

Oil palm plantation and rainforest near Tangkahan village

Corn in Colombia [colombia_4422]

Aerial view of estuary, forests, and agriculture

Flooded rice fields at sunset [madagascar_5884]

Cerrado and pasture

Soy and forest reserves [brazil_0407]

Industrial oil palm in Costa Rica

Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon

Village and terraced rice paddies in Madagascar's Central Plateau

Rainforest transformed into cattle pasture

Piles of oil palm fruit at a palm oil mill -- borneo_5107

Aerial view of oil palm plantations in Costa Rica

Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0507]

Soy field abutting against tropical forest

Flooded rice fields at sunset [madagascar_5879]

Aerial view of an oil palm plantation and a heavily logged natural forest

Aerial view of rice paddies near Maroantsetra

Oil palm development in Central Kalimantan

Green rice paddies in Udomxai province

Tea workers

Beetlenut palm grove

Slash-and-burn farming in Peten; Guatemala

Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0531]

Cattle pasture and Amazon forest

Aerial view of coffee plantations in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0458]

Replanting an oil palm plantation on the edge of Gunung Leuser National Park

Palm oil mill in an oil palm plantation in Sumatra

Strip of forest in Amazon cattle pasture

Aerial view of extensive soy fields and legal forest reserves in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0258]

Oil palm plantation near Gunung Leuser National Park

Cerrado and transition forest cleared for pasture

Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0615]

Green cacao pods still on the tree (Toraja Land (Torajaland), Sulawesi)

Corn in Colombia [colombia_4595]

Aerial view of shade-grown coffee in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0036]

A stack of burning trees in a deforested landscape

Geometric patterns of deforestation

Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0625]

Forst clearing for soy

Stalks of rice in China

Oil palm plantation adjacent to Gunung Leuser National Park [sumatra_1159]

Rice fields in the Antanifotsy Valley [madagascar_6198]

Haze rising from an oil palm plantation established on former rainforest land

Hillside clearing for oil palm

New oil palm development near the boundary of Gunung Leuser National Park

Soy fields in the Amazon

Recently cleared transition forest

Terraced rice paddies

Agriculture in the desert

Corn planted on former rainforest land

Newly cleared section of Amazon forest

Forest clearing near Chapada

Senum in a rice paddy in Laos

Soy and forest in the Amazon

Oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo -- borneo_2822

Rice fields on the island of Java (Java)

Flooded rice fields at sunset [madagascar_5850]

Rice fields near Banda Aceh

Flooded rice fields at sunset [madagascar_5858]

Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0627]

Soy fields and transition forest near Chapada

Beetlenut palms

Border between forest and soy

Soy and Amazon transition forest [brazil_0345]

Tea plantation on the rolling hills of Uganda

Soy fields and transition forest near Chapada [brazil_0131]

Aerial view of an oil palm plantation and a heavily logged natural forest -- borneo_2803

Shifting cultivation by the Trio tribe in the rainforest of Southern Suriname

Slash-and-burn agriculture

Rice fields on Don Khong

Soy fields and transition forest near Chapada [brazil_0127]

Aerial view of rice fields outside of Fort Dauphin [madagascar_3054]

Terraced rice paddies in Madagascar's Central Highlands

Scarred landscape in the Brazilian Amazon

Aerial view of gallery forest and a sisal plantation in Berenty [madagascar_2992]

Contrast between oil palm estate and a heavily logged natural forest

Corn in Colombia

Tavy or slash-and-burn agriculture in Madagascar

Village and rice fields in Madagascar's Central Plateau [madagascar_4801]

Cerrado, transition forest, and pasture

Newly tilled land and forest in the Amazon

Aerial view of coffee plantations in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0464]

Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0636]

Soy and forest reserves

Rice fields in Luang Prabang province

Belizean slash-and-burn

Forest fragments in a sea of soy

Soy field in Colombia

Oil palm plantation and rainforest [sumatra_1460]

Slash-and-burn agriculture

Large Malagasy home and rice fields [madagascar_5643]

Cleared forest land in Belize

Oil palm plantation near Gunung Leuser National Park [sumatra_0796]

Deforestation for cattle pasture in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia

Flooded rice fields at sunset [madagascar_5838]

New forest clearing for oil palm near the boundary of Gunung Leuser National Park

Rain forest cleared for oil palm plantation in Malaysia

Rice fields in the Antanifotsy Valley [madagascar_6196]

Rice field and zebu cattle [madagascar_4773]

Green rice paddies in Udomxai province

Sugar cane in Colombia [colombia_4445]

Storm over the Amazon's agricultural landscape [brazil_0431]

Storm over the Amazon's agricultural landscape

Oil palm plantation

Deforestation for cattle pasture in Guatemala

Sugar cane in Colombia

Solitary tree in the middle of a soy field

Draining peatlands for rice cultivation

Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0520]

Soy and forest reserves [brazil_0399]

Aerial view of new cerrado/transition forest clearing

Oil palm tree

Terraced rice paddies Madagascar's Haus Plateaux

Senum in a rice paddy

Rice fields in Tana

Soy and forest reserves [brazil_0411]

Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy

Recently cleared land border a tract of Amazon forest

Forest cleared for pasture

Riparian forest and soy [brazil_0333]

Women working in a terraced rice field [madagascar_4738]

Rice along a road in Yunnan

Oil palm plantation adjacent to Gunung Leuser National Park [sumatra_1131]

Edge of a forest reserve bordered by agricutural land in the Brazilian Amazon

Villages and rice fields along RN7 [madagascar_4747]

Smoldering trees in a deforested landscape

Aerial view of sisal plantation near Amboasary

Soy and forest fragments: the new landscape of the southern Amazon

New oil palm planting near a protected area

Oil palm seedlings

Green rice paddies in Udomxai province

Geometric patterns of deforestation [brazil_0541]

Lone Brazil nut tree left standing in a deforested area

Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture

Large-scale soy fields in the southern Amazon

Amazon forest margin

Riparian forest and soy

Flooded rice fields at sunset [madagascar_5849]

Airplane view of new oil palm plantations in Costa Rica

Aerial view of an oil palm plantation and a heavily logged natural forest -- borneo_2806a

Sugar cane in Colombia [colombia_4450]

Rice paddies near Canyon des Makis and Canyon des Rats [madagascar_7161]

Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0568]

Matrix of soy fields, forest reserves, and cattle pasture in the Brazilian Amazon

Oil palm fresh fruit bunch

Slash-and-burn agriculture

Soy and Amazon transition forest [brazil_0347]

Oil palm plantation worker

Rice fields in Luang Prabang province

Rice fields on Don Khong

Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Oil palm plantation with the rainforest of Gunung Leuser National Park in the background [sumatra_1441]

Oil palm plantation and forest in Costa Rica

Rice fields on Don Khong

Piles of oil palm fruit at a palm oil mill

Aerial view of estuary, forests, and agriculture [costa-rica-d_0241]

Orange orchard planted on deforested land

Rice fields on Don Khong

Rice fields in the Antanifotsy Valley [madagascar_6185]

Rice and elephant-ear plants [mcar_0092]

Soy field adjacent to Amazon transition forest

Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0508]

Aerial view of Manuel Antonio National Park

Soy and Amazon transition forest

Dry rice fields and rainforest

Windmill in a corn field in eastern Colombia

Copyright Rhett Butler 1999-2013

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