Barka is famous for a number of traditional trades and industries: fishing, which is practiced by a large number of the population of the state as a major source of livelihood and they depend on agriculture, which has a variety of dates, lemons, vegetables and legumes, as well as rising the livestock, which is practiced by a large number of people to raise and trade goats, cows, camels and horses.. The people of Barkaa are characterized by the craft of "fronds industry" such as tools made from palm fronds as ropes, Da'on, Alzagera, Al-Gazaa, Al-Qufr (tools and furnature mand from fronds and by hand), while the industries are: gold and silver, confectionery, textile, carpentry, blacksmithing, leather, tanning, textiles.