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The project members visited an ensete farm two hours drive away from Addis Ababa. The ensete, often called the false banana, looks like banana trees and is a unique plant that only exists in Ethiopia. Local people make use of it for a variety of ways like for food or for material of rope. It contains a full of cellulose and seems to have a possibility of transforming into soil improvement additives.
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