A Kurdish man collects freshly harvested sunflower seeds in a field in the district of Ranya, about 100 kilometres east of the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.
Sunflower seeds are packed in Ranya district, in Iraq's northern autonomous region of Kurdistan.
Sunflowers are one of the crops grown in the region.
A Kurdish man works in a sunflower field in northern Iraq.
Sunflowers are grown in Iraq's northern autonomous region of Kurdistan.
A Kurdish man works in a sunflower field about 100km from Erbil.
Sunflowers are harvested during the 'golden hour' in Iraq's northern autonomous region of Kurdistan.
A man harvests sunflowers in the northern Iraqi district of Ranya.
Harvested sunflowers are packed into a trailer.
Workers fill a trailer with harvested sunflowers.
Sunflower farming during 'golden hour' in northern Iraq - in pictures
