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Nepali Market Flooded With Cassava, Sweet Potato And Cocoyam Ahead Of The Maghe Sakranti Festival

A pile of yams is kept for sale in a local market in Kathmandu, Nepal, on January 8, 2026, ahead of the Maghe Sakranti festival. The festival of Maghe Sakranti, the first day of Magh, is celebrated and marked by consuming different tuber crops, mainly yam and sweet potato. People boil yams in the evening of the last day of Poush, the 9th month of the lunar calendar, and eat them the next morning with ghee and molasses. It is widely believed that the boiled yams taken on the morning of Maghe Sakranti stave off cold-related ailments. (Photo by Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto)

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Photo ID: #13169168
Date taken: 8 January 2026
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Photographer: Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto
Category: Economy, Business and Finance

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