OCCUPATION AND LIFESTYLES

Kokori people are predomaninantly farmers and traders through the ages.They also like adventurous and creative life.Those who stay permanently at home take their professional pursuits with great zeal just as much as those who travelled abroad as they exhibit equal vigour and determination. The farmlands at home at home is richly fertile and stand above flood level most of the year,thereby giving favourable condhtions for steady cultivation of arable and cash crops.Some of the food crops mostly grown in the area by farmers are cassava,okro,tomatoes,pepepper,beans,cocoyan e.t.c.The cash crops are rubber,oil palm and oranges.Rubber tapping is an undertaking by men and women alike as an additional means of livelihood.Those who do not have their own plantations hire from those who are unable to do the jobs themselves or from those who have in abundance.The young men buy and sell rubber sheets or lumps as a trading profession. The land affords the farmers bumpers harvest and those who trade on these farm produce make good cash turnover.Kokori farm produce makes her market very rich,popular and attractive to traders from far and near places to buy food items and to sell their merchandise.The farm produce definitely promotes the economic life of kokori people at home and this can be noticed from the people's lifestyle of affluence which is manifest in their ability to purchase and own commercial vehicles that fly from kokori to sapele,ughelli,warri and far places.You can also find modern buildings which the people at home put up everywhere in the town,their fantastic spending and the gorgeour dresses they wear at public functions. Kokori indigens who go abroad have the same enthusiastic spirit to pursue their objectives.You can find them all over the places like Okitipupa,Benin,Ishan,Ado-Ekiti and many other towns in Nigeria embarking on farming,rubber-tapping,and trading e.t.c.They make enormous wealth from these professions and bring them home to invest in magnificent buildings.