Yam is a major food crop with high export value for
Ghana.
But like many other crops, its production is under the
threat of climate change as farmers experience poor rains in recent times.
Ghanaian researchers are however promoting the use of
mechanized ridging to reduce drudgery in yam production.
They explain the improved agronomic technology is
climate resilient and gender-sensitive to sustain yam production in the face of
climate change.
The farm is the classroom where the farmers and
research scientists get themselves busy with the soil to learn how to better
produce yam for higher income.
Kofi Adu Domfeh spoke to farmers and researchers at a
farm in Nyomoase in the Atebubu-Amantin Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region and
filed this report…
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