They also cultivate rice, maize, peppers, yams, and other vegetables. Some spices, such as cardamom and cinnamon, are raised for export. The Boloven are skilled wood-workers, though unlike other people groups in this area, they do not weave or work with metal. Pagodite , a stone used in carving, is also mined in the Boloven Plateau. Boloven villages are generally small.
Houses are rectangular, built on stilts, and accessed by stairs.
Depending on a family's income, a house may have thatch or wooden walls, a thatch or tile roof, and bamboo or wooden floors. Each house has a kitchen garden in which vegetables and herbs are raised. The village is the most significant political unit of Boloven society. Each has a village headman who decides important issues. Tribesmen are considered citizens of Laos, but most of them have no special representation in the government.