Farmers harvest yams in Nigeria. Image courtesy of Asrat Amele/IITA. The plant acts as a living yam stick, he says, and as well as reducing the need to cut wood from the forest, the pigeon pea ...

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 ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness has encouraged farmers in Trelawny to capitalise on the opportunities in yam farming, positioning it as a viable means of economic development ...

The yams are starchier and drier than sweet potatoes, and the Madagascan varieties have white or purple flesh. If you're curious to taste a yam, you may have to do a little tuber shopping.

“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.

A yam farm in northern Ghana, with wooden stakes used to support the yam plants as they grow. These “yam sticks” are often harvested from surrounding forest.