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Table 10 Planting arrangements of enset landraces in homegardens of Wolaita, Southern Ethiopia

From: Indigenous knowledge, use and on-farm management of enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) diversity in Wolaita, Southern Ethiopia

Landrace uses/characteristics

Representative landraces

Planting site in the homegarden

Justification for selection of planting site

Ornamental/Colorful landraces

Agino, Kambata, Maziya

Along side-lines of farms

For ornamentation of homegardens

Vigorously growing landraces

Ala-genna, Godariya, Halla, Mochiya, Wanadiyia

Homegarden fringes

As symbol of status

Landraces used for water fetching from pseudostems

Lalukiya

Along homegarden paths

For ease of water fetching from the pseudostem

Medicinally important landraces*

Argama, Gefetanuwa, Lochingia

Unsightly corners inside the plantation

For preserving healing powers of landraces

  1. *Maintaining medicinal landraces in unsightly corners of enset homegardens is less frequently practiced in Wolaita area at the present.