Bench people

Bench people ( Mer Bench),[1] are an Omotic-speaking people indigenous to southwestern Ethiopia.

Bench people are subsistence farmers who cultivate maize, sorghum, and root crops such as taro and yam as their major staple crops, though coffee and Ethiopian cardamom are also cultivated as the main cash crops.

In some highland areas, Bench people cultivate barley, wheat, beans, peas and teff.

According to Bench District Administration Office, Bench also raise cattle, sheep, goats, equine and poultry.

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