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.

Amid rising food insecurity in Nigeria, yam farming and its value chain offer a promising investment opportunity, with the potential to generate significant returns within six to twelve months , the ...

It is not just a tuber to be dug up, roasted or boiled and eaten. There is quite a feast when the first yam is eaten, signalling the onset of the harvest season. Residents gather, sporting their best ...

In Emure Ekiti, a town in Nigeria, hundreds of townspeople troop into the streets to celebrate the season of the yam harvest. Women sing praises and chant prayers, dressed in beautifully printed ...

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 ...

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 ...

BENIN – The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Blessing Agbebaku, has flagged off the 2026 planting season under the Governor Monday Okpebholo-led “Back to Farm Initiative” with a ...