The Wana grow rice, maize, sweet potato, manioc, tubers, cereals, fruits, vegetables. The Moronene grow rice but sago is their staple food. The Laki grow mountain and irrigated rice, and sago is also their staple food. Rice was introduced to the Tomini around 1900. Primary and secondary forests are cleared to make small plots.
Rice is grown the first year and then the field is planted with another crop.
Fallow periods last a minimum of 5 years, except on the coast. Plots are only cleared again 10 to 20 years later. The government has tried to force them to migrate to the coast. There, fallow is much shorter. They prefer to clear fallow land and the plots are rectangles of about 1 to 1,5 ha, which is the basic minimum for a family of 10 or 15.