ABSTRACT
To find the food and the raw materials, the Tio on the plains practised agriculture, raised small live stock and poultry, hunted and gathered wild produce. This was the job of a unit of production which consisted of the polygynous and extended families and the whole of these activities made up the production process of raw materials in the economics of subsistence. Agriculture was practised in three types of fields or gardens. Agricultural work was poorly considered and the contrast with hunting for instance is striking. The Trapping lacked all the glamour of hunting. The love for hunting resulted ultimately in overwork and undernourishment for the women. Some of the women added pottery-making to their other tasks. But the activities of growing food crops and fishing did not mix too well. The production of raw materials by and for the households of the extended families at the village level on the plains met the basic needs of shelter and food.
