Yam harvesting and processing

Yam harvesting and processing

Yam is a carbohydrate food. It can be processed into different kinds raw or finished food that is cool for consumption. For someone that need quick sucrose in his/her body, yam can help supply same in the body of the individual.

Yam is planted like any other plant however, plant does not have a particular part of its body that needs to be in the ground before it can grow. 

Yam can grow comfortably on a flow and can also grow in the ground. All that a yam need to grow is a cool place, that's all. Even if you don't supply water to a yam, it will still grow. I remember leaving my yam in the open place in my kitchen and i noticed that the yam started growing very well in my kitchen. I had to remove the grown vegetable site of it to truncate it from growing further but even after removing the vegetable part of the grown yam, it will find it's way and grow again.

I remember when i was a little younger, i use to go the the farm with my grand mother and my mother. I remember vividly how we use to prepare the yam that we wanted to plant and i also remember how we use to harvest the yam when it was ready to be harvested.

If you want to plant a yam as i have mentioned above, i will give a hint on how to achieve it. To achieve planting the whole body of the yam, cut them into your desire pieces, touch the exposed part of the yam with a cement, then bury the yam into the ground.

Once buried, don't forget the always water the ground where you buried the yam. You can repeat watering the ground on a daily basis until the vegetable part of the yam springs up. A healthy yam growth will need a fertile and a soft ground to grow very deep into the soil.

When the yam is fully grown and you are ready to harvest it, you need to know that it requires expertise to bring it out of the soil else you break or spoil the yam. If you know how to harvest the yam, you can go ahead and do so but if you don't know how to do so and you are not ready to learn it, you can employ someone to do the harvesting of the yam for you.

If you don't know how to harvest a yam and you are willing to learn, i am here to give you the required guide. To harvest a yam, go to where you planted the yam and carefully spread you legs over it. Now use a spear, something that looks like a spear, a hoe or a machete and carefully dig the surrounding of where the yam is.

Continue digging the surrounding of the yam and then carefully come closer to the yam till you see the shape of the yam. Once you see the shape of the yam, carefully dig round the yam till you see the bottom of the yam. You can decide to now pull the yam once you see the whole body of the yam or almost the whole body of the yam. If you follow the procedure well, your yam will look neat and will not be damaged.

Now that you have harvested your yam, you can decide to either store the yam in your yam barn, take it to the market for selling or take it home for consumption. I still remember how we used to store our yams in our yam barn. My grand mother used to do that very well.

When it comes to yam processing, yam can be processing into a flour which can be used to make fries. Yam can be pounded and used to make pounded yam. This food is the most preferred African delicacy. 

Yam can also be used to make fried yam which is another delicacy loved by Africa. I in particular, fried yam with tea and sauce goes very well with me.

Another food you can process yam into is yam porridge. This food is more special when it is prepared with a dried fish and enough crayfish to go with it.

Yet another food you can process yam into is yam pepper soup. This kind of pepper soup is another delicacy that is loved by Africans. I must confess, sometimes, i crave for such where there is meat and a palatable yam to go with it.

As a married man, i have learnt a new thing you can actually do with yam. When i got married to my wife, i noticed that she use to cook some certain soup with yam. On the long run, i noticed that the yam used to act as a thickener in the soup. The yam helps the soup not to be watery when it is ready for consumption.

There are lots of things you can do with yam but for the purpose of this article, i will be truncating the list here. If you think there are more thing we can do with yam but was not covered in this article, feel free to drop your ideas in the comment box below.

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