Farmers' Market In Africa Where No Scales Or Hand-Balance Is Used When Selling Produce.

In the free farmers' market in Africa where the Niger people sell their goods without the use of any scales or hand-balance to calculate the weight. If a customer wants to buy some beans, the farmer puts some beans in a bowl and tells the customer how much must be paid. If tomatoes are required, the tomatoes are piled up and the customer told the cost. In this farmers' market in Niger, the goods are very expensive; 10 bananas cost 1500 Francs, about 3$, because the land is so dry and it is difficult to grow the crops. In this farmers' market there always seemed to be plenty of oranges. The fruit and vegetables to be sold in the farmers' market, are washed with the same type of washing powder as used for washing clothes, to make the goods look cleaner. After being in Niger for about two months I began to miss eating apples, but I never saw any apples being sold in the farmers' market. The market people think the foreign people have a lot of money so the prices of the goods are always higher for them, than the prices for the local Niger people.