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yam
2025.01.17
Yams are perennial herbaceous vines native to Africa, Asia, and the Americas and cultivated for the consumption of their starchy tubers in many temperate and tropical regions. The tubers themselves, also called "yams", come in a variety of forms owing to numerous cultivars and related species. -Wikipedia-In Yomitan Village and Uruma City, where yam production is flourishing, there is an industrial festival called “Yams-Suubu,” in which contestants compete in the total weight of yams produced from a single seed potato.
At the festival site, fresh yams are sold, and the purchased yams are carried by wheelbarrows and handcarts. Also, large yams were cut into small pieces and sold in small lots.
At the food booths, steamed yams, packs of tripe and yam croquettes were on sale, and we bought a pack of each, which looked delicious, and ate them in the tent for a break.
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One share of yam yields 40 to 50 kilograms, which is a high yield per unit area. The total weight of a single yam plant exhibited at the “Yams-Suubu” is well over 100 kg, proving its high productivity, and the yam in the picture looks like a baseball glove.
According to a person who exhibits at the Yams-Suubu every year, the best way to grow large yams is to start by preparing the soil.
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