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Nweke, Felix I.,. Yam in West Africa: food, money, and more / Felix I. Nweke. — 1 online resource — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/1096171.pdf>.

Record create date: 11/30/2015

Subject: Yams; Yams as food; Yam industry; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture

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Table of Contents

  • Contents
  • Foreword by Werner Kiene
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Yam Primer
  • Chapter 2. Yam Production Contexts in Nigeria and Ghana
  • Chapter 3. High Labor Cost in Yam Production
  • Chapter 4. Yam Seed Technologies
  • Chapter 5. The Challenge of Nematodes in the Yam Food Sector
  • Chapter 6. Yam Crop Improvement Research
  • Chapter 7. Prospects and Impediments to Difffusion of Hybrid Yams in Nigeria
  • Chapter 8. Periphery Situation of Yam in National Food Policy Programs
  • Chapter 9. Yam Stereotype as a Man’s Crop
  • Chapter 10. Yam Postharvest Matters
  • Chapter 11. Trade in West African Yam
  • Chapter 12. Fuels of Yam Consumption in West Africa
  • Chapter 13. Yam in the Igbo Cultural Rite of Marriage
  • Chapter 14. Synthesis
  • Appendix 1. Participants in Activities that Contributed Information Reported in this Book
  • Appendix 2. List of Hybrid Yams Released to Farmers in Nigeria
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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