Maize
Food crop: vegetable used for both human and animal consumption.
Carrot
Food crop: vegetable used for making salad and stew.
Cabbage
Food crop: vegetable used for making salad and stew.
Plantain
Food crop: a starch that is sweet or salty depending on its ripeness; it is used to cook Fufu or is boiled to eat with soup.
Papaya
Food crop: a popular fruit.
Cassava
Food crop: a starch that is used to cook Fufu; in other West African countries, the leaves are cooked for soup.
Cocoyam
Food crop: starch that is sweet and is used to cook Ampesi and Fufu. It can also be fried.
Sweet Potato
Food crop: a starch that is boiled or roasted; in other West African countries, the leaves are cooked for soup.
Garden Egg
Food crop: vegetable used for soups and stew.
Pepper
Food crop: vegetable used often to flavor meat and soup.
Spring Onion
Food crop: vegetable used often to flavor soup.
Amaranth
Food crop: a leaf used to make soup.
Millet
Food crop: a grain used for making traditional food.
Sorghum
Food crop: a grain used for making traditional food and drinks.
Mucuna
Cover crop: a nitrogen fixing and soil protection plant.
Cowpea
Cover crop: a green legume used to cook soup and is a nitrogen fixing and soil protector cover crop.
Mexican Sunflower
Strip cropping: a nutrient recycler and is cut to mulch when it begins to spread.
Crotalaria Jauncea
Cover crop: used to attract pollinators such as bees.
Moringa
Tree crop: a medicinal leaf used to make tea for digestive health.