(1) About three hundred varieties of taro are known to have existed in Hawaii.(2) Yams, taro , bananas and coconuts are also cultivated, but a reliance on sago means that the production of it remains a major practice of village life.(3) In low-lying areas, the country's water is so salty that many farmers now grow taro in tin-lined containers or concrete-lined planting beds.(4) The staple food is the sweet potato, introduced from Indonesia about 300 years ago; other crops are yams, bananas, taro , sugar cane and greens of various kinds.(5) In Tuvalu, farmers once dug pits in the sandy soil, filled them with compost and planted taro , but now in low-lying areas, increasingly brackish water is poisoning these root crops.(6) With a larger pond, you can have lilies or tiger lotus, maybe some taro or umbrella palm that will help shade the pond surface.(7) Other commercial activity is heavily agriculture-based: the manufacture for export of coconut cream, taro , passion fruit, limes, and honey.(8) The leaves of the taro can also be cooked and eaten, in the same way as spinach.(9) Early Hawaiians relied on taro as a staple starch in their diet.(10) In W. Africa, where both taro and malanga are staple foods, next in importance only to cassava and yams, they are known as u2018oldu2019 and u2018new cocoyamu2019.(11) The starch component, which is referred to as u2018real food,u2019 is usually taro , yams, sweet potatoes, or manioc but may consist of tree crops such as breadfruit, bananas, and nuts.(12) Uchideshi life back then consisted of rising before the sun to pray, training, and eating two meals a day of rice porridge with sweet potato or taro .(13) The most popular Asian flavourings are taro (a starchy potato-like root vegetable) and sesame (yes, like those on your bagel).(14) Finally, she says, it's exciting to have had first-hand experience with tropical agriculture by sampling breadfruit, taro , fresh coconut milk, and lychees just picked from a tree.(15) People note that banana trees are not producing many fruits, and yams, taro and sweet potato are similarly affected.(16) Women tended the pigs, planted the staple crop of sweet potatoes and other foodstuffs such as greens and taro (a starch), and weeded and harvested the garden plot.
