Due to the local production of crops such sorghum, maize, beans, and millet, farming is a significant economic activity for the residents of Funakaye LGA.

[6] Funakaye is blessed with Minerals like bentonite and Limestone, Coal, Gypsum, Gold, Gemstone, Uranium etc.

The people are living in abject poverty and the illiteracy rate is quite beyond that of all the other Local Government Areas in the state.

[8] The French company Lafarge (company) has been operating in the area since the 1990s, mining Limestone, Coal, and other mineral resources amidst, though under allegations of not fulfilling its Corporate social responsibility of bringing social amenities to the poor, uneducated locals whose environment has been polluted.

The company had for so many times promised to alleviate poverty in the area but to no avail [9] Climate The Emir of Funakaye, Alhaji Mu’azu Muhammad Kwairanga III, died at the age of 45 on Saturday, 27 August.