Agriculture isn’t just a means of producing food; it’s also an art form. When dedicated farmers tend to their farms, the resulting produce is just as beautiful. This is especially true for the Enset Plant, which has been cultivated for over 10,000 years in Ethiopia.
It’s the only edible species of its kind in Africa and possibly the world. Today, this crop serves closet of life yielding multiple purposes, providing food and nutrition security, cash crops, and environmental conservation for over 30 million people in the South, Southwest, Central, and Oromia regions, expanding towards the Northern parts and that of East Africa as a whole. Our homeland Ethiopia is luckily enriched with abundant natural resources that gears our development.
What is needed is seeing things with opened eye and giving due consideration if we must dump poverty and ensure development. It is a trend oftentimes being said that Ethiopia is full of resources. But those resources had not been utilized fully for growth and development.
Still we have remained with unleashing the potential in different aspects for example agriculture, mineral etc. One and untapped aspect is crops, plants, animals, and others. Among all, enset is a crop for which less attention given comparing to its diverse purpose as a means of food source with different nutrients.
Other indigenous plants, animals or crops might be lost due to different disasters especially weather, but enset resists drought and sustains for the harsh .
