At normal markets (not supermarkets), these food items are available, but only local crops within season.
It appears the war's darn near wiped out the local crop.
The local crops were also not ideal and produced fewer calories than those of other regions.
In most countries, cut flowers are a local crop; because of their limited life after harvest they have to be marketed quickly.
In this situation, he said, "local crops could be neglected and diversity lost."
Until the 1990s one of the main local crops at altitudes above 1,000 m was opium.
They primarily grew local crops having, apparently, none of their own.
At the end of the war, the soldiers went home and a national market had developed for the local crop.
Some of the Jews controlled the marketing of local crops from the entire area.
By the 1960s, avocados became the largest local crop.