Enugwuabo is well known for agriculture and its major food crops include yam, cassava, cocoyam, plantain, banana, maize and rice. The yam was traditionally considered to be the male crop while the cocoyam was seen as the female crop. While the men cultivated their yams and stored them in huge barns the women were allowed to cultivate the cocoyam and were never required to contribute the fruit of their labour or the wealth accruing from the sale of the cocoyams to the family output. It was in fact a very early tool that gave the women folk empowerment and some financial independence.

As a nod to our rich agricultural. history, major agricultural projects like the World Bank Rice Project attracted by Chief Christopher Okechukwu, and Federal Fishery Project have been located in Enugwuabo. There are also several privately owned farms, Poultry, Piggery, Garri Processing and Oil Palm Processing Plants.

Joseph Agro Industries, in partnership with the Anambra State Government, formed a joint venture company, JOSAN, and resuscitated the former World Bank and Fishery Project in Enugwuabo. It is an integrated agriculture project, which has the rice