Ai-isin "maik" ne'e ema fó hanesan hahan ba fahi no mós hamaran hodi faan ba ema iha sidade. Baibain ema uza hodi halo kosmétiku. Uluk iha tempu rezisténsia ema balu han hodi sobrevive iha ai-laran. 
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People dig these wild tubers from the ground. They cut them into chips and dry them on palm leaf matting. The dried chips are sold to merchants in the towns, eventually they end up in cosmetics. The flowering plants of the tubers stick out of the ground like red hot pokers. Sometimes these tubers were relied on as food for people during the war.