Large quantities of yam exported to the US from Ghana have been rejected, as most were found to be unwholesome upon arrival in that country. Robert Baffuor Tandor of the Ministry of Trade ...

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 ...

Ho, Sept 26, GNA - The titans in the telecom business in Ghana on Saturday made their presence felt at the Asogli 2011 Yam Festival durbar grounds in competition for attention. The yellow ...

Government’s investment marketing agency, Jampro, reported that domestic yam production – inclusive of the Lucea, Negro, renta, St Vincent, sweet, tau and yellow varieties – increased from ...

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.

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 ...

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.

A new report published by the Danish Embassy has shown that the value of food losses and waste in Ghana is estimated at ... post-harvest losses of tomato, yam, mango, citrus and chilies accounted ...

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 ...