 This weed has also made growing cotton, an important cash crop, more difficult In response to this threat, FARM-Africa has helped local inhabitants to organize themselves to eradicate "Prosopis" from 280 hectares in the Region, as well as build three pod-crushing mills in Amibara and Gewane woredas.A sample enumeration performed by the CSA in 2001 interviewed 9979 farmers in this woreda, who held an average of 0.2 hectares of land.Of the 1.75 square kilometers of private land surveyed, 68.81% was under cultivation; returns for other uses of land was missing.