Ensete ventricosum: A Multipurpose Crop against Hunger in Ethiopia

摘要: Ensete ventricosum is a traditional multipurpose crop mainly used as staple/co-staple food for over 20 million people in Ethiopia. Despite this, scientific information about the scarce. Three types of food, viz., Kocho (fermented product from scraped pseudostem and grated corm), Bulla (dehydrated juice), Amicho (boiled corm) can be prepared enset. These products are particularly rich carbohydrates, minerals, fibres, phenolics, but poor proteins. Such meals usually served with meat cheese to supplement As crop, it has useful attributes such foods stored long time, grows wide range environments, produces high yield per unit area, tolerates drought. It an irreplaceable role feed animals. Enset starch found have higher or comparable quality potato maize widely tablet binder disintegrant also pharmaceutical gelling, drug loading, release processes. Moreover, enset shows genetic diversity within population which turn renders resilience security against ever-changing environmental factors land use dynamics. Therefore, more research attention funding should given magnify make wider crop.