 Other varieties of banana include those for making beer ("orubisi") and spirits ("konyagi") as well as non-cooking types considered to be sweet.Beyond food and nutrition, banana use among the Haya includes their ritual use as offerings to ancestors as well as a ritual called "koshobekera" believed to assist in a child's growth.Raised alongside bananas are coffee shrubs, a once prosperous cash crop for the Haya until market influences coupled with El Niño rains from 1998 to 2000, followed by a severe drought, destroyed much of the crop.