What is hit?

ENset is a type of plant that grows in Africa and Asia, and it is particularly important in the Ethiopian Highlands, where it has been grown for food for thousands of years. The plant is often called a false banana because the exterior appearance of the tree resembles the appearance of a banana tree, although both are in fact very different. The fruit of the ENSET tree is not edible, so the plant is largely grown for meat inside its trunk and root, which is a large korm. The edible part of the ENENT tree is pulp inside the Corm and the stem of the tree that tends to look and taste similar to the meat of potatoes and can be used to make steamed, puddings or bread fermented food. Although the tree has long been in Ethiopia with basic food, several factors - including illness, exaggerated, drought and lack of crop alternation - caused a dramatic decrease in the availability of the affected root.

There are two edible parts of the ENSET tree. The first is a corm or root of a tree that has a large amount of white potato meat inside. This substance can be consumedraw, cooked in goulash or mashed into nutritious porridge. The tree itself can sometimes grow higher than 32 feet (10 meters) in height, so the size of the CORM can be incredibly large and provide a good amount of food from one tree. Corm meat tends to taste like potatoes, mainly because of the starch it contains.

The second edible part of the ENSET tree is the interior of the stem and stem. The meat of the stem tends to be white, such as Corm, but also contains a little more water and is often prepared during harvest. The meat is cut off from a tree, kneaded into a dough -like matter and wrapped in large green leaves. Wrapped dough is then buried in a country where the pulp over time will create bread as a food that can be cooked, dried to powder, made in a porridge or fried into cakes. Fermented pulp has acidic bread similar to taste.

Although the ENSET tree has been grown as a source of food for thousands of years, several problems have come closer to destroy a large part of the trees. IllnessE quickly expanded and killed many plants, followed by drought, which further reduced the harvest. This eventually led several communities to begin to harvest trees before maturity, so they did not produce seeds, leading to the inability to grow more trees, as it could take almost five years before one tree. The tree remains an important basic food in Ethiopia, but it is not so abundant in 2012.