To realise full potential at the farm, all the preparations, planting methods and good agronomic practices are observed.

Indigenous villagers on Peleng Island say they worry the development could catalyze unprecedented local environmental damage, impairing the cultivation of unique yam varieties grown only here.

In addition, yam byproducts are also profitable, offering significant income opportunities for those engaged in their production and sale. As such, investing in yam and its wide range of benefits ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—It’s official. The Mississippi sweet potato is growing tremendously—in status that is. The storage root formally becomes the “Official Vegetable of Mississippi” on July 1, after ...

Most yams in Jamaica take about seven to 10 months from planting to reaping. Being an underground crop, yam production was not as badly affected by Hurricane Beryl as other produce.

By eliminating the need for stakes, these yams not only optimize space but also provide an opportunity for mechanized planting and harvesting, making yam cultivation more efficient and scalable.

Using only your fingers, sweet potato slips can be cleanly snapped off of the sweet potato, no knife is needed. A good length for slips is around eight to ten inches or so. If they start to get ...

Yams are grown in tropical places, mainly Africa, Asia, South America and the Caribbean. The sweet potato is a New World root vegetable.

The trial of sweet potatoes, which wrapped up in 2022, refined crops from six to three varieties and the company is now growing commercial quantities of gold skin varieties, the Bellevue and New ...

High-fiber foods, including sweet potatoes, can even boost the body’s production of GLP-1, the hormone that drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy mimic, Ms. Simon said.

Yam cultivation has a history of more than 3,000 years, especially iron yam, which has gradually become a lucrative business agricultural commodity in the Central Plains.