ABSTRACT
Production is easily quantified, and from a western perspective yield or some monetary based derivative largely dependent on yield and its value, has long been a central consideration in agriculture. This chapter focuses on the complex issues surrounding production there and changes over the some years. It outlines the cropping systems commonly found in Eroke, and discusses how these and production have changed over this period. Production for consumption is simply not a major issue for farmers in Europe and North America who buy food from supermarkets. The bimodal system allows the production of two crops on the same land in a single year, with intercropping rather than sole cropping as the norm. The diversity of field crops is equally matched by variation in tree crops. In the course of two surveys in 1997 and 1998 farmers were asked whether aspects of crop production had changed or stayed the same since the introduction of structural adjustment programme in 1987.
