YIIFSWA II

The Project seeks to develop and establish a functional, commercial seed yam seed system in Nigeria and Ghana to benefit smallholder farmers through timely and affordable access to high quality seed yam tubers of improved varieties.

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Why not yam? A case for investment in yam research and development in Africa

August 21, 2020

Optimizing commercial seed yam production

August 21, 2020

IITA invests in the development and implementation of seed yam certification system in Nigeria

August 21, 2020

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Our vision of success for this project is a 30% increase in the productivity of yamcultivation for at least 320,000 smallholder yam farmers in six states (Enugu,Benue, Nasarawa, Federal Capital Territory, Niger and Oyo) of Nigeria and two regions (Brong Ahafo andNorthern) of Ghana.