Food staples include corn, rice, plantains, yams, beans and several meats. Vegetables include&colon; sweet potatoes (kumura), carrots, sweet corn, tomatoes, taro, yams, peas, and beans. Potatoes, yams, and sweet potatoes are root vegetables propagated by tubers. Popular crops such as cassava root, sweet potatoes, and yams are grown. Vegetables used to accompany these included yams, soybeans, broad beans, turnips, spring onions, and garlic. Food staples include corn, rice, plantain, yams, beans and several meats. Agricultural products include coconuts, bread fruit, yams, taro, bananas, pigs, and fish. Best suited intercrops are sorghum, millet, maize, peanut, yams and cassava. Ingredients are of native starchy tubers, yams, cocoyams, and cassava. Hanalei's earliest residents grew large amounts of taro, bananas, breadfruit, sweet potato, yams, and coconuts. The fish is curried and served with lagoon rice and cassava and yams. Asian yams and taro were also cultivated in Africa. Maize, yams, gourds and melons are also cultivated. They can cause damage to agricultural crops, such as cassava and yams. JA is also responsible for tuber formation in potatoes and yams.