Legumes and sugar cane are important cash crops; Ada'a produces the most teff, wheat and legumes in Misraq Shewa.
The earlier survey found that of the land under cultivation in Chilga, 64.53% was planted in cereals like teff, maize and finger millet, 2.81% in pulses like horse beans, 8.3% in oilseeds like neug, 0.72% in perennial crops like coffee, 0.62% in root crops, 0.45% in vegetables, and 12.57% all other crops.
The major agricultural crops in Tach Gayint include: cereals such as teff (42,873 quintals harvested in 2005), barley (31,134 quintals) and wheat (20,027 quintals); pulses such as fava beans (5,174 quintals), field peas (3,576 quintals), haricot beans (3,037 quintals), and chick peas (1,334 quintals); vegetables such as potatoes (18,874 quintals); bananas (1,637 quintals) and hops (2,163 quintals).