The staple crop of the Galo people of Basar is rice, maize in slash-and-burn agricultural practice.

Basar is the original place of Riba, Basar, and Riram clans of Galo tribe and they live in over 65 hill villages, traditionally each keeping to itself under a selected chief styled Gaon Burra (British-era development) who moderates the village council, which acts even as the traditional court.

The dress of the Galo people in Basar is worn by both sexes are self-woven beke tied around the bosom and gale wrapped around the body below the navel region to toes completely covering the lower portion in women.

The men wear a self-woven sleeveless shirt called Tango which is covered by a raw silk cloth zera wrapped over the shoulder.

The lower portion is covered by a loincloth called haabe which is passed in between the buttock, folded towards the pubis, and which hangs on a belt-like deerskin leather embedded with semiprecious stones and corals.

The BASCON festival is held annually in November, celebrating the tribal art and culture of the local Galo tribe.