The ingenious minds at Primitive Technology reveal a clever farming method that shields massive 600lb yams from pests without ...

Cultivate yam: Yam is mostly grown between April and May, during the rainy season. It yields best at places where there is rainfall of about 150cm throughout the farming season.

The Technical Committee on Nigeria Yam Export Programme, says it will train farmers on best agronomic practices for yam farming to avoid rejection of the produce at the international markets. Prof ...

“YAMS attracts over 10,000 farming people and all indications are that we will have a full house once again offering farmers the opportunity to see the very latest machinery and kit available ...

(“Sweet potato” and “yam,” by the way, are used interchangeably, but they are two entirely different vegetables.) ... with 72 acres set aside for Texas A&M to develop a sweet potato farm.

Their habitat is disappearing, partly because of a rise in peanut farming, Wilkin says. And yams, which are the edible root of climbing vines, are being overharvested.