Weese processor (Enset processor)
WEESE PROCESSOR Enset or Weese, as it is called in Sidaama, is a large single stemmed, banana-like perennial plant grown mainly as a garden crop in the south and south-western Ethiopia. About ten million people use enset as their major staple food crop. Enset plant is used for 1) Food (hamicho or boiled corm, kocho and bulla),2) Bedding (dried enset leaves),3) Food wrappings (leaves),4) Cattle feed (leaves, leaf sheaths, and corm) and 5) Building materials (leaf sheaths and fibre—by product of decorticating leaf sheaths). Kocho and bulla are obtained by decorticating leaf sheaths and by grating/shredding peduncle and corm. The traditional way of extracting kocho and bulla from leaf sheaths, peduncle and corm is tedious and back breaking process. Weese processor is meant to change that and make the lives of enset producers much simpler. In the following few pages, I will try to explain, with the help drawings, how weese processor works. The Weese processor has two distinct processor