ABSTRACT
The quantities of foodstuffs sold in the market, which are small relative to the total consumption, were accurately recorded for three years, but there is no direct check of the home produced and consumed food, as during the cocoa crop season farmers may live on their farms for weeks at a time and entry of foodstuff’s to the village is lower than the actual consumption. Plantain and cocoyam (taro) are the staple foods, the former resembling a large green banana while the latter is a tuber not unlike a big rough potato. About 500 tons per annum of plantains were consumed and about half that amount of cocoyams. The corn is usually stored in the ear in small temporary barns raised on poles, and brought from the farms to the village for consumption as required. A few groundnuts are planted, but the oil-palm provides practically the whole of the vegetable oil.
