Chapter+7

due date** || **Facilitator** || farming || November 14 || By: Mike Scheier ||
 * **Chapter** || **book page #s** || **Topic** || **Discussion
 * 7 || 52-62 || Locusts and

media type="youtube" key="kTOYWfV-LkI" height="344" width="425" This swarm of locusts shows just how terrifying and devastating these creatures can be

[|Igbo Farming] This site describes how the Igbo farm, what their most important crops are, and how those crops are utilized [|Locusts] This site has interesting and basic facts about locusts, as well as their tendencies and habits and how devastating they can be to farmers
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**Locusts**  ·  When environmental conditions produce many green plants and promote breeding, locusts can congregate into thick, mobile, ravenous swarms   ·  Locusts are related to grasshoppers and the two insects look similar  ·  They can pack between 40 and 80 million locusts into less than half a square mile (one square kilometer) in their swarms.   ·  Each locust can eat its weight in plants each day, so a swarm of such size would eat 423 million pounds (192 million kilograms) of plants every day.   ·  Found in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, locusts inhabit 60 countries and can cover one-fifth of Earth's land surface   ·  Desert locust plagues may threaten the economic livelihood of one-tenth of the world's humans. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">**Igbo Farming** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Men are mainly responsible for yam cultivation, and women for other crops <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Usually, the men clear and prepare the land, plant their own yams, cut stakes and train the yam vines, build the yam barns, and tie the harvest <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The women plant their own varieties of yam and "women's crops," which include cassava, cocoyams, pumpkins, and peppers <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Palm products are the main cash crops <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Most farmland is controlled by kinship groups. The groups cooperatively cultivate farmland and make subsequent allocations according to seniority <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">It is Igbo custom that a wife must be allocated a piece of land to cultivate for feeding her household <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> · R  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">ights over the use of land for food cultivation or for building a house depend primarily on agnatic descent, and secondarily on local residence