[1] Commercial agricultural activity in Amibara began before the Italian invasion, when a German-Ethiopian named David Hall operated a farm at Melka Were.
[2] A local tradition is that a foreigner in this woreda introduced the invasive species Prosopis juliflora to the Afar Region in 1988.
This weed has also made growing cotton, an important cash crop, more difficult[3] 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.
[4] 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.
For the land under cultivation in this woreda, 180 hectares was planted in vegetables, 3 in sugar cane, 96 in root crops, 146 in fruit trees like lemons and oranges, and 144.94 in bananas; the returns for cereals and pulses is missing.