Most Inca farmers used terraces to grow their crops. They built walls around the terraces and then filled them with soil and planted crops. The farmers built the terraces in a way that they were all watered by gravity moving watered throughout almost all of them. An equal amount of both men and women were farmers. Crops had a hard time growing here due to the high elevations, low quality soil, and lack of water. Farmers grew avocado, cocoa, corn, cotton, grain, papaya, peanuts, pineapple, potatoes, etc. Incas also raised alpacas and llamas to help fertilize the less rich soil. The empire had a lot of land that couldn't be used for farming because of the conditions that came with it. So areas were too dry, too deep of gorges, but then they also