ABSTRACT
The Wolof grow bulrush millet 1 and sorghum (dugub, dugup) and groundnuts (gεrtε) and plant relatively little rice (malo), though in some of the southern zones, owing to pressure of population, the exhaustion of upland soils, and the influence of neighbouring Mandinka peoples, rice growing is important in their economy. Digitaria (findt) 2 is very rarely planted. Maize (mbɔha) is sown in the compounds and back gardens. An early ripening millet (suna) is grown in plots round the compounds where it can be guarded against birds when ripening. Cotton (witεn) is often interplanted with the suna. More suna is grown in the northern zone than in the south.
