Farming Farming plays a big part in Ibo culture. The main crop that Ibo people grow are yams. Yams fall hand in hand with social class. The more yams that you have is the more respect and honor that you are bound to receive from others. During the raining season yams are planted. The yams are held in tee-pee shaped mounds as seen in the picture above so that the rain has a trough for the water to flow around. At the end of the raining season and the near start of the dry season the yams are harvested and sold in the market. With the Ibo village the people would harvest their yams and bring them back to their compound and build yam barns. By building the barns it ensured families a constant food supply throughout the dry season.
Not only do the Ibo people rely on the yams to provide food but they also rely on palm trees for their beverage. They tap palm trees in order to receive their beverage. The outcome of this process is palm wine which is frequently drunken at ceremonies and casual dinners.
The Ibo people pay great respect to the earth because they have to rely on it in order to provide food for them. The village farms and uses everything they grow showing how much respect and thankfulness they have for the earth. They take nothing for granted knowing that the earth is not always going to be so generous and provide them with a plethora of food for their hungry families.