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.

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 ...

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 ...

For Simon Ngure (pictured), cultivating aerial yams has become a business by accident. He stumbled upon aerial yams while looking for a unique agricultural crop that could boost the income he used to ...

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 ...

In major yam-producing areas such as West Africa and the Caribbean, the tuber is traditionally grown using sticks as scaffolds for vine growth, which are traditionally cut from the forest, causing ...