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Adnem Women Farmers Keep 40-Year Yam Farming Tradition Alive Without Government Support

For over 40 years, women like Pratiksha Velip, Prashanti Velip, and Chandravati Velip, all belonging to the Scheduled Tribe ...
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Meet the yams banker

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 ...
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FG distributes yam seeds, other inputs to farmers in Kaduna

Speaking during the distribution on Sunday in Kaduna, Raheem Adejoke, a Senior Agric Officer at the Federal Department of Agricultural Extension Services said the aim was to boost mass cultivation of ...
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Community rallies at yam feast

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 ...
The Nation Newspaper

Abia community gets new king of yams

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 Ezeji ...
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Imo community urges youths to sustain yam cultivation

Stakeholders of Ohaji, in the Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State have called on the youths not to abandon yam cultivation for white collar jobsThe chairman of the event, Dr Greg Obi ...