Striga clings to the roots of maize and other staple crops, draining them of essential nutrients and water. Around 30-40 ...

Skins contain fine roots, just like beets and carrots, that can be coaxed into producing slips which are sweet potato seedlings that produce a crop. Slips can be started from store bought sweet ...

Wondering exactly how many calories are in a sweet potato? A single sweet potato has about 80 calories. Read to find out all ...

The area dedicated to Beni Haruka harvested in 2022 reached 7,055 hectares, accounting for 21.9 percent of the total sweet potato fields. This is nearly double the area of 2015's crop.

Farmers in Sherpur are now commercially cultivating sweet potatoes and exporting them abroad, with the root vegetable grown in the char (riverine island) areas of the district going to Japan.  A ...