A new propagation technique that enabled farmers to grow yams from vine cuttings rather than bulky tubers is a major breakthrough toward addressing Nigeria’s chronic seed yam shortage and high ...

Nigeria accounts for 60% of the world's [yam output] and 74% of the total production in West Africa. Grown as a staple food, the tuber of the yam plant is its economically important part. The yam ...

Kolkata: Villagers in West Bengal ’s remote Harishchandrapur and some other blocks in Malda district are solely depending on boiled Yam leaves for survival during the lockdown in the wake of global ...

Many adults have surprisingly never tasted yam leaves. You don't know what you are missing. The leaves can be cooked fresh, or after a while when they have been left out to dry in the sun. Whichever ...

ABUJA – AS food prices remain high, the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, IITA, Wednesday, disclosed boosting yam farmers productivity with a new innovation called the Programme for ...