BILL GATE GIVES $12M GRANT TO BOOST YAM PRODUCTION

 The Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation gave a $12-million
(nine-million-euro) grant Monday to
a project aimed at boosting yam
production and doubling the income
of west African farmers of the crop. It is the foundation’s largest grant
for yam production anywhere in the
world, said a spokesman of the
International Institute of Tropical
Agriculture in Nigeria’s southwest
city of Ibadan. The project’s initial focus is on
200,000 smallholder farm families in
Ghana and Nigeria, 90 percent of
whom cultivate less than two acres,
the institute said in...  CLICK TO READ MORE