Ch.+7+Farming+and+locusts

= Igbo Farming/Locusts =

Farming
 * Subsistence farming characterizes agriculture among traditional Igbo people
 * Some agricultural products include Yams,Cassava, and Taro
 * Cassava is a shrubby, tropical, pereninial plant
 * Taro is a dense and starchy tuber with tall, thick, and fleshy stems topped with a very large triangular leaf
 * The Yam is the most important crop
 * The Igbo had to rely on those crops
 * A matter of survival by cosumptions



Locusts
 * Locust are related to grasshoppers and they look similiar
 * Found in Africa, the Middle East and Asia
 * Can threaten economic livelihood of one-tenth of humans
 * They inhabit 60 countries and can cover one-fifth of Earth's surface
 * They are solitary insects with lifestylse much like grasshoppers
 * Eat it's weight in plants each day
 * Can congregate into thick,mobile,ravenous swarms

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