Abstract
In Ethiopia population of 79.3 million living in rural area being employed in agriculture [1], agriculture is the main driver...
Highlights
In Ethiopia population of 79.3 million living in rural area being employed in agriculture [1], agriculture is the main driver for growth and long-term food security as it contributes on average 44.18% share to GDP and 29.31% share for GDP growth from the year 2007/08 up to 2014/15 fiscal year [2].Enset based farming is an indigenous agricultural system and more than 20% of Ethiopia’s population depends on enset for food, feed and fiber
Enset in the chena district is major indigenous root crop cultivated as traditional staple food crop
Enset production was considered as mainly for consumption purpose and farmers participation in marketing of enset products was weak for various reasons
Summary
In Ethiopia population of 79.3 million living in rural area being employed in agriculture [1], agriculture is the main driver for growth and long-term food security as it contributes on average 44.18% share to GDP and 29.31% share for GDP growth from the year 2007/08 up to 2014/15 fiscal year [2].Enset based farming is an indigenous agricultural system and more than 20% of Ethiopia’s population depends on enset for food, feed and fiber. Due to its drought tolerance, enset plant is regarded as a priority crop in Ethiopia, where it makes a major contribution to the food security of the country [3]. For instance, Elias (cited by [4]) revealed, enset crop is produced as a staple and co-staple food and represent a potential pathway to move out of poverty for many smallholders in Southern and South Western Ethiopia. Enset is a multi-purpose and multi-year crop with over 80% of its’ production in the country is covered by the south and southwestern parts of the country. Enset is one of the indigenous root crops cultivated as traditional staple food crop and its’ cultivation reaches about 65 percent of the total crop production in southern nation nationalities and people’s regional state of Ethiopia [5]. During 2014/15 agricultural production year in Ethiopia, 345093 tone of kocho was supplied to market from Southern Ethiopia [6]
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