A one day consultative meeting was organized by PELUM Ethiopia in collaboration with GLIMMER OF HOPE on Enset production opportunities and challenges and held on November 05, 2022 in Kela town, debud sodo woreda of Gurage zone.
The consultative meeting brought together 65 participants representing different organizations like Hawassa University, south research center, project beneficiaries, woreda experts and Das, NGO, development association, pelum staffs. The consultative meeting was aimed to restore enset diversification, identify the main challenges on enset production(bacterial wilt) and establishing enset production and restoring excellence centers at household and woreda level. During the meeting, different presentations were delivered on the subject matter by scholars and experts representing different universities and different organizations.
At the end of the meeting, a task force led by the woreda administrator was established to work on identifying existing number enset varieties at a household level, take actions on the infected enset crops and identify centers to establish in situ enset excellence centers.