Prior to the Ethiopian Revolution, Kafta Humera was the site of a government program to provide land to landless peasants from Tigray and Eritrea.

[3] In November of that year, a wild fire near the resettlement sites in Kafta Humera destroyed approximately 10 hectares of forest.

[6] A sample enumeration performed by the CSA in 2001 interviewed 11,606 farmers in this woreda, who held an average of 1.89 hectares of land.

Of the 21,950 hectares of private land surveyed in Kafta Humera, 93.19% was under cultivation, 0.03% pasture, 4.85% fallow, 0.73% woodland, and 1.19% was devoted to other uses.

Sesame is a high-value edible oil that is exported to Israel, Turkey, the Middle East, Japan and China.

Sesame production is labor-intensive, especially during the weeding and harvesting period, attracting an average of 200,000 workers from the rest of the Tigray Region, northern Amhara, and Sudan each year.