| Most people support themselves through subsistence farming, growing rice, yams, cassava, bananas, and palm oil nuts. |
| Forest crops, such as plantain, cassava, cocoyam, and tropical yams, predominate in the south. |
| The cassava plant, almond tree and hydrangea have all evolved the same chemical defence mechanism. |
| Farmers should also be encouraged to grow other crops such as millet, cassava, sorghum and others on equally a large scale. |
| Maize, cassava, pigeon peas, onions, bananas, potatoes, and tomatoes are important commercial crops. |
| Many Zanzibaris are farmers cultivating on a small scale, and cassava is their favorite crop, although rice is also consumed in large quantities. |
