People sells tomatoes and onions at a market in Lagos, Nigeria Monday, February 27, 2023Sunday Alamba





Tetyana Motorna appears at her stall in Volodymirsky market in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 9, 2023. Motorna, who has sold pickled fruit and vegetables for decades, supports chef Ievgen Klopotenko’s work to secure borsch as a national treasure for Ukraine. (Photo by Chris Warde-Jones/AP Photo)





People visit a market to buy vegetables and other stuff, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Cash-strapped Pakistan nearly doubled natural gas taxes Tuesday in an effort to comply with a long-stalled financial bailout, raising concerns about the hardship that could be passed on to consumers in the impoverished south Asian country. Pakistan's move came as the country struggles with instability stemming from an economic crisis. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





Men offload yam tubers from a truck at an open market, ahead of Nigeria's Presidential election in Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria on February 23, 2023. (Photo by Temilade Adelaja/Reuters)





An Indian woman sorts chillis at a wholesale vegetable market in Guwahati, India, Wednesday, February 1, 2023. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government ramped up capital spending by a substantial 33% to $122 billion in an annual budget presented to Parliament on Wednesday, seeking to spur economic growth and create jobs ahead of a general election next year. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A vendor sits at a flea market in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, February 4, 2023. (Photo by Daniel Cole/AP Photo)





A local resident walks along an open-air market in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, on February 13, 2023. (Photo by Sergey Bobok/AFP Photo)





People shop at a local market in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Mariupol, Russian-controlled Ukraine on February 16, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





A man sells lentils at a wholesale grocery market in Karachi, Pakistan, 01 February 2023. Consumer prices rose by 27.55 percent on a year-on-year, according to data released by the statistics department on 01 February. A 100-basis-point increase in the key policy rate (benchmark interest rate) was also announced by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on 23 January 2023. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





A fruit seller arranges his fruits at a local market in Tehran, Iran, ahead of the Persian new year, known as Nowruz, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Iran's bazaars are packed ahead of the Persian New Year next week, but there's little holiday cheer as customers survey the soaring prices of meat and holiday treats, wondering if they can afford either. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Mannequins dressed with Chador are displayed at a shop in an old grand bazaar at the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, February 7, 2023. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Seen from above, vendors sell tomates from their trucks at Lo Valledor central wholesale produce market in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, February 9, 2023. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A person carries a box of tomatoes during early morning business hours at New Covent Garden Market in London, Britain on March 9, 2023. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/Reuters)





Laborers work at a wholesale vegetable and fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, February 17, 2023. Many laborers are worried how they will survive after the government advanced a bill to raise 170 billion rupees in tax revenue. That could worsen impoverished Pakistan's economic outlook as it struggles to recover from devastating summer floods and a wave of violence. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





Thousands of bright Red Potatoes are washed and sorted at a vegetable market. Workers hose down tons of the vegetables before packing them into sacks at the market in Shibganj Upazila, Bogura, Bangladesh on February 19, 2023. The Red La Soda spuds are then taken to the country's capital Dhaka. (Photo by Mustasinur Rahman Alvi/Rex Features/Shutterstock)