Seeds are sometimes ground into a concentrate for animal feed. Because of water constraints, tree spacings must be considerably greater than canopy diameters. The pods of both trees are eaten by native peoples, especially as a ground flour. Bees produce honey from the flowers. These trees are candidates for erosion control and soil stabilization in and lands.
Seeds are difficult to extract from the gummy pulp.
Prosopis pods can be ground in a meat grinder after drying pods in an oven at 52 o C overnight, which will also serve to scarify the seeds. For good germination seeds require scarification of the seed coat with a file or knife. Trees grew about 2.2 m in height per year. However, excellent weed control coupled with mechanical cultivation was required to achieve these high yields. Over a period of years this necrosis gradually spreads downward and eventually may kill the entire tree.