Andek Council area is overwhelmingly agrarian principally rooted on subsistent agriculture in which peasant farmers, especially women constitute over 98% . The economy is entirely founded on  food crops in the majority of cases and livestock in rare cases are produced. Nine in ten Women produce foods for the families and occasionally market the surplus to support socio economic ventures such as medicine,  school fees and dressings. Men usually keep a few animals where possible and the men in the forest areas support  the harvesting of palm nuts and the production of raffia palm wine. The people toil for long hours on the farms and harvest less because food crop yields are livestock weight gains are generally poor.

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The women process the palm nuts manually and very laboriously into the best oil that is second to non in the country.  At the central market in Andek which holds once in 8 days at least 8 t. of high quality palm oil is marketed for at least 3 600 000 to traders from Mbengwi and Bamenda. Palm wine is also produced by men but transported for marketing by women and young people. In a week of 8 days about 100 jugs of raffia palm wine is marketed for at most 150 000 F.CFA for local consumption.

A major constraint to the production of food crop in the Andek Council Area is stay animals which are left to graze on food crops produced by women. As a result, food security has often been threatened leading to malnutrition.  Between 2013 and 2014, working in collaboration with the local administration of government and the Fons, stray animal owners have been controlled to keep livestock under control. Therefore in the last 12 months, there has been some marked improvement in the harvest from crop farms.

Pal oil is the single economic products of the people of Ngie. Plans are underway to improve the palm variety, to introduce improve cultivation techniques, to modernize the processing of palm nuts into palm oil,  to process the palm kernel to palm kernel oil and animal feed as well as organize the marking of palm oil into marketing cooperatives.