"Enset plantations" Arba Minch' Local Custom Tip by sachara

Around the beehivehuts of the Dorze people you can find enset plantations. Enset (Musa ensete) or the false-banana tree is a old banana tree, that is past bearing fruits.

The Dorze people have a special custom to use these false-bananas. Nowhere in Africa you can find these customs. They scrape the bast to to remove all fibre and gather the stuff to prepare a kind of bread.

At the picture you can see the wooden board, used for the scraping and making of a kind of white pulp.