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.

A new technology where seed yam is produced from yam leaf bud cuttings instead of the traditional cutting of the tubers to produce seed yam has been introduced to some farmers in the East Gonja ...

After learning farming under his father, Alpha Shonvo, 29, started his farm in Kakulu village, Zing Local Government Area of Taraba State, when he was 12 years old. He dreamt of cultivating a much ...

Some yam farmers in the Northern Region are worried of poor harvest due a dry spell being experienced in the region. The rains have stopped falling in some parts of the region for close to two months, ...

For over a decade, Irish potato farmers in Plateau State have lost millions of naira to the blight disease. Some of them had jettisoned potato farming and embraced the farming of other crops such as ...

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 ...

YORKSHIRE'S largest agricultural machinery show YAMS returns to the farming calendar at York Aucton Centre, Murton near York on Wednesday February 2. Richard Tasker, organiser of YAMS since its outset ...

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 ...