ABSTRACT
The oil-palm has been mentioned in connection with food supply. Except for local requirements of oil for cooking and palm wine for drinking, cropping is neglected and bunches left to rot. After extraction of the pericarp oil, some of the kernels are roasted in iron pots for extraction of the kernel oil, and a part of burnt kernels are used for fuel by the blacksmiths. One small plantation of para of about 100 trees had been planted by one farmer, but the rest were isolated specimens in the cocoa farms, planted as shade trees. Most of the trees planted however had been cut out during period of slump prices. One farmer had also planted some coffee, but the farm had not been cropped. The cultivation of vegetables is probably just sufficient to meet local consumption, that the bulk foods, plantain, cocoyams, etc., are over-produced and much is left to rot in the farms, family only taking sufficient for its needs.
