At what time can the harvest begin for cereal plants ?
However its value as a famine food has fallen due to a number of causes , as detailed in the April 2003 issue of the UN-OCHA Ethiopia unit 's " Focus on Ethiopia " :Apart from an Enset plant disease epidemic in 1984-85 which wiped out large parts of the plantations and created the green famine , in the past 10 years major factors were recurrent drought and food shortage together with acute land shortage that forced farmers more and more into consumption of immature plants .