Effect of Wild Edible Fruit Plants on Socio-Economic Factor in West Hararghe Zone

Wild edible fruit plants are vital standing in worldwide as a subsidiary food hamper on regular mood. They are resources of existence for countryside societies with food and feed consumption, particularly during the times of scarcity, starvation, shocks, and dangers. So the study intended to evaluate, identify, and document scientific data, to get the constraint and opportunity potential of Wild edible fruit plants. Implementation through assessed species, partly used, habitat, mode of uses, flowering months, fruiting months, and factors of threats of wild edible fruits plants. In addition to food values, these floras deliver varied welfares to the existing public for income, fuel wood, barrier, manufacture, remedy, and feedstuff. The top five highly impersonated wild edible fruit plant species by respondents were Psidium guajava, Mimusops kummel, Carissa spinarum L., Rosa abyssinica, Ficus sycomorus, and Oncoba spinosa forssk. However, most of them were threatened by anthropogenic factors through misconception utilities. The threat factors such as land degradation and grazing, clearing of forests for agriculture, fire, timber and charcoal, Stem, leaves, root, and bark harvest. To alleviate, the entire threat of wild edible fruit plant species; a community-based forest management system, awareness creation, and growing of wild edible fruit plant species at farms and homesteads level, is mandatory for any forest resource users. Therefore; the most threatened and unregenerated wild edible fruit plant species of the study areas main concern should be given the acute collection, in-situ and ex-situ conservation, and promotion of on farm husbandry in the practice of agroforestry schemes. Further investigation should be considered on the collection, nutrient content analyses, in-situ and ex-situ conservation, wise utilization, and popularization of Wild edible fruit plants through forest management. These are vital points to be deliberated forward.