Yam, the staple crop in the South Eastern part of Nigeria has been celebrated, wanted in some places used for venerations. Igbos are known to be more of technocrats and businessmen but they still have their farming skills still intact. Great Igbo farmers are known by titles such as Ezeji ( king of yams) Ogbuji ( Killer of Yams) and many more, these are few of the names that demonstrates the sagacity of igbos and their farming prowess.

https://etimes.com.ng/a-farmer-proudly-displays-his-harvest-and-yam-barn/

With modern living and rural urban migrations, this has seen many farmlands in Igbo land been used for developmental projects such as schools and hospitals ,but land for farming is always there. The traditions Igbo farmer loves his food crops organic and he grows them organically with little fertilisers.

In his chat with us, Robert Nwokoro said that "Perhaps you 've been looking for a perfect depiction of Achebe's Okonkwo, I present to you my own Okonkwo: Chief Andrew Okoro Aja, the Patriarch of Aja family. He is my father, very industrious and conservative. This year's harvest is surplus! The man is just extra-ordinary! "


This method of storage has depicted efficiency and value chain. The storage levees little to be wasted and inexpensive. The food crops are stored outside and it doesn't take billions to construct. The yams are sorted and graded ,then stored. The Igbo prefer growing their food organically with little need for fertilisers. It has been noted that yams grown with fertilisers don't last long and this barn last as long as two years ! The Igbo farmer can achieve this by playing the right specie and growing them organically.


Another thing that is of important note here is harvest, the farmer could harvest this because the herdsmen are not there and they don't want the herdsmen to be there. The nightmarish experience the farmers across the country are witnessing in the country especially within the food belt areas of North Central has affected agro revolutions and food production leaving the citizens for the option of political revolution. With the insecurity around, farmers from these regions can't achieve these feat, not that they are lazy, far from it but because the environment isn't enabling.

Hard work pays . . Igbo amaka

There is an Igbo saying that goes thus:"You first have to praise the farmer for a job well done before you ask him for a yam"



Eze ji Ndewo!!!

Space for sale.

Where is my share
..

This type of pictures was what I was used to growing up during harvest period, now we show case trash online. Tumps up to the hard working farmer, may your barns never run dry

Oba ji

OYA, SHOW UR FARM
SNAKE NO DEY THERE TO SWALLOW UR YAM?

Omo.... See money

Hard work met creativity on the way!

I like the arrangement
The wahala no easy but the harvest dey sweet

Wow nice one.

nice one

This are real igbos not the fake online, lazy, 419, drug traffickers and jewish idol worshipers

9ce

Efcc should visit him, Jonathan planted those yams In his farm...

Efcc should visit him, Jonathan planted those yams In his farm..

But this yam bans are common in the East though,it is just ignorant folks who think people don't farm in the East

Nice one. This is serious hard work. Kudos to the farmer.

But we need to look for a way to mechanize this yam farming.

We can't continue doing things the usual way.

Other developed countries have gone ahead of us simply because they have been able to come up with machines that can improve human efforts multiple times over.

nice one .

but I only eat JI iyooo

upon all the crisis fulani herdsman they cause....God got your back and protect you and your crops until you harvested everything.... The man is really lucky...
Which of HIS favour will you deny?

Great man

Wao

Good harvest. Yam don dey hungry me.

Now Fulanies herdsmen will come and cut it down for there Cows to feed on.When they talk,they will be killed. One nige ria.

Ogbu Igi sir.

Man, this is something!

Kudos papa

I join you to thank God for the harvest

Thank God Fulani herdsmen killer no reach your side

It's this kind of harvest they have denied other farmers due to killings farmers and burning of their farm

Beety26:
Oba ji

on point sis.

See my favorite type of food being display. Obaji.

I just love how those yams are stacked; makes me imagine how Okonkwo's yam barn in late Chinua Achebe's classic "Things Fall Apart" were stacked.