Farmers who felt that they were being taken advantage of by merchants and brokers formed cooperatives for buying implements and house-hold supplies, and storing and selling crops.
The buildings are for tools, machinery, storing crops.
Women do most of the crop farming, weeding, harvesting, threshing, storing crops and selling.
The present Great Barn was built in 1388 and was used for storing and processing crops (threshing and winnowing).
The Bwa traditions of storing crops for use in lean years were undermined by the crippling taxation systems of the French and they suffered further from famine from 1911-1913.
Some are consultants, employed by private engineering firms, while others work in industry, for manufacturers of agricultural machinery, equipment, processing technology, and structures for housing livestock and storing crops.
With the grain speculators who once controlled prices no longer able to call on armed bands of enforcers, it is finally safe to begin storing crops until the price rises.
In some locations barns were built to store tithed crops.
A5 Desarmes Journal: Haitians find it is finally safe to store crops.
Some have suggested a souterrain, a place for storing crops and animals.