Ensete ventricosum: A Multipurpose Crop against Hunger in Ethiopia
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Indigenous knowledge, use and on-farm management of enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) diversity in Wolaita, Southern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman is a major food security crop in Southern Ethiopia, where it was originally domesticated and during millennia became pivotal crop around which an entire farming system has developed. Although its cultivation is highly localized, the enset-based farming system provides sustenance to more than 20 million people. Precise ethnobotanical information of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Scientific World Journal
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2356-6140,1537-744X
DOI: 10.1155/2020/6431849