PHOTO: Haiti - Lo Patat - How sweet potato is sold in street markets

PHOTO: Haiti - Lo Patat - How sweet potato is sold in street markets

Look at this photo... In Haiti's street markets (maché) sweet potato is sold by the "LO," they are lotted up for sale. Each lot cost between 10 gourdes and 25 gourdes...

In other countries that I have visited inclusing the neighboring Dominican Republic, sweet potato is sold by the pound.

Jou mache en Haiti se pa LO yo vann patat, men nan lot peyi mwen visite, se pa LIV yo vann sa...

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