Agriculture is another issue. Morotai suffers from a lack of water resources that severely limits the number of places in which crops can be cultivated. The islanders do grow some eggplant and bitter melon, but the yields and quality of the vegetables are poor, leaving them dependent on produce from Ma-nado, the capital of North Su-la-wesi Province.
在提升當地農業技術方面，摩洛泰因島上水資源不足，僅有少數地方能夠栽作，種出的茄子、苦瓜數量少而貧瘠，島上居民每每都得靠著鄰近的北蘇拉維西省省會 Manado 送來物資補給。