 Coffee is another important cash crop, with over 5,000 hectares is planted with this crop.The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 169,912, of whom 87,003 were men and 82,909 were women; none of its population were urban dwellers.The majority of the inhabitants said they were Muslim, with 83.68% of the population reporting they observed this belief, while 15.4% of the population practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.