Gurage Community wikipedia

 

Gurage People:- 
The Gurage's are an indigenous people to Shewa province, known as hardworking and humble people in Ethiopia who mainly rely on trade, agriculture, and other services-sector economies. In the Gurage province,  one not only notices the change from plains to mountainous terrain but also an increase in greenery and vegetation, as well as different crops being planted.

One of the most ubiquitous and traditional crops of the Gurage people is ensete. Other, more typically Ethiopian crops such as coffee, khat (pronounced chat), wheat, potatoes, varsities of barley, beans, peas, and teff are also common.
Almost all varieties of fruits and vegetables are commonly grown in all Gurage areas.

The Gurage people usually reserve cows for milk production, whereas oxen are used for farming, and beef, horse, and mule are known as means of transportation in rural areas, plowing fields and transporting goods to the market for trade. Many Gurage people are devoutly religious, and the majority of Gurage people are split between Ethiopian Orthodox 52 percent, Protestants 6 percent, Muslims 41 percent, and Catholics 1 percent. Despite the diversity of religious beliefs, the Gurage people are very peaceful and typically value unity in their shared Gurage identity or identity as Ethiopians.