Amid rising food insecurity in Nigeria, yam farming and its value chain offer a promising investment opportunity, with the ...

TABOR CITY, NC (WWAY) — The North Carolina Yam Festival is underway in Tabor City, paying tribute to a crop that is big business in the Cape Fear. The Yam Festival began in 1946 as a way to celebrate ...

Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the genus Dioscorea, the yam thrives in a tropical belt across West Africa, with outliers in the ...

Increasing the yield of important crops such as yam is crucial to ensure food security and livelihood. However, unpredictable rainfall and higher temperatures have contributed to reduced yam harvests.

How do you become the king of yams (Ezeji) in Igboland? It is by cultivating 20 barns of yams and more. An environmentalist, Dr Uchenna Onyeizu, who scaled this hurdle, has been crowned as the Ezeji ...

The Federal Government has distributed improved yam seedlings and other inputs to farmers and extension agents in Kaduna. Speaking during the distribution on Sunday in Kaduna, Raheem Adejoke, a Senior ...

Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have been advised to adopt urban smart agri- business to produce organic food and revolutionise agriculture ...

Elijah Matumbi M’Irura demonstrating how weeding is done on yams plants. Elijah Matumbi M’Irura says he keeps his money under the soil in form of tubers called yams. Elijah Matumbi started his yams ...