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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 21, 2015) |
| Subject |
Yams -- Africa, West
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Yams as food -- Africa, West
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Yam industry -- Africa, West
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Horticulture.
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Yam industry
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Yams
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Yams as food
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West Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781609174743 |
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1609174747 |
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