Generally, agricultural practice is extensive in Kumbo. The main food crops produced are: cocoyams, maize, beans, plantains, groundnuts, sweet potatoes, bananas and pepper. Coffee, which is the principal cash crop around this area is produced in hundreds of tons.

The home garden farming system is very developed, even in some parts of the urban area. The home gardens encourage the recycling of household wastes and thus environmentally friendly. Around the homesteads, we find Eucalyptus trees associated with avocado, mango, guava, plum and orange trees. Under these trees, plantains, cocoyams, pepper, maize etc are grown.

Most of the crops produced are bulky and susceptible to attacks by pests. Many are perishable. Market gardening is practiced along the banks of the streams that flow in the many valleys. Carrots, cabbages, tomatoes, onions etc, are produced.

The Oil Palm has not been common in the Kumbo Municipality. Attempts are being made though, to introduce the vital source of cooking oil into the area. Realizing that this particular product is of critical socio-economic importance, the Council has developed an Oil Palm plantation in Nkuv.

The people produce cows, sheep, goats, chicken of traditional and improved breed and pigs. Cane rats are domesticated at a small scale. There are a few horses and donkeys. Productivity per animal is very low, characterized by the use of low quality traditional breeds, and poor feeding and bushing. Much of the pastureland has undergone degradation through the action of bracken fern and other destructive agents. The quality of the grass itself is poor and dries up during the dry season, thus necessitating transhumance.

The donkey has played a great role in the growth of the Nso economy. Kimbeh bi (meaning - transporter of kola nuts; as the donkey is known in Lamnso) was the main form of transportation of goods in Nso, especially agricultural products, including the kolanut.