Story behind Yam Festival From "Notsei" in the Republic of Togo, Ewes brought this festival to Ghana several years ago. The cultivation of yam is not a smooth job, but rather very dull and lazy one.

Press Release - Ghana has taken a major step ahead of other yam-producing nations with the launch of a strategy for the development of the yam industry from farm to market. This follows the global ...

Yam is a large root vegetable that looks like a tube. (Xinhua/Shao Haijun) Women dance at the Yam Festival in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital, 165 km northeast of Ghana's capital Accra, Sept. 21, 2013.

would position Mion district to become a major yam market in Ghana, Mr Issa Alhassan, Mion District Agriculture Officer on Monday said. He said the five-year project, which begun this year, sought to ...

The national yam strategy puts yam in the spotlight as a key crop to help Ghana fight poverty, enhance food security, and improve the livelihoods and income of women and men engaged in the yam sector.

The Igbo Community in Ghana on Sunday celebrated the 2019 (Iriji) Annual New Yam Festival with a resolve to deepen the cultural and economic ties between their host country. The ethnic group who ...

By Emmanuel NyatsikorHo, March 22, GNA – But for yam and plantain, prices of other foodstuffs remained stable in the Ho market according to a survey conducted by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on ...

Ghana produces more than five million tonnes of yam a year, and should reap at least $20m from exports. But the real figure is thought to be significantly less than this. The union is now calling for ...

The economic value of the yam industry in Ghana has grown quite rapidly in recent years, with its foreign exchange earnings shooting up to the third position among the non-traditional export ...

Ghana today October 8, 2013 launched a national strategy for the development of the country’s yam industry. Ghana has now become the first yam-producing nation to rollout such a national strategy for ...