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 ...

The yam was key to the development of synthetic hormones, a scientific advance necessary for the creation of the Pill. By the 1940s scientists had figured out the importance of hormones in the ...

LIME TREE, Trelawny — With Jamaica earning only US$40 million of a potential US$100 million from yam exports, Agriculture Minister Floyd Green says the Government is working to link farmers directly ...

There’s something incredibly comforting about a warm bowl of soup, especially when it’s as vibrant and nourishing as this ...

If you are buying yams from a specialist African or Caribbean shop, ask them how to prepare the yams you are buying. They will have advice on whether the yam must be peeled before cooking and how ...

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 ...

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite steady growth in exports of yam over several years, stakeholders in the agricultural sector say the once humble tuber can earn even more than the US$40 million it did ...

Today’s Goodle doodle is a tribute to Cantonese opera legend Yam Kim-fai, also known as Ren Jian. Her stage and screen careers stretched from the 30s to the 60s, and she was in 300 film titles ...

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 ...