Anybody growing yams?

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Yams are one of the indigenous crops in the tropics. They have many positives like the fact that they are drought resistant and require minimum inputs to grow them. But they are gradually becoming scarce, I won't say endangered due to fewer farmers taking up their farming. Do you grow yams?
 

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Yams are one of the indigenous crops in the tropics. They have many positives like the fact that they are drought resistant and require minimum inputs to grow them. But they are gradually becoming scarce, I won't say endangered due to fewer farmers taking up their farming. Do you grow yams?
I don't know of anyone in the US who grows them. Don't they need a long time to mature? Here we grow sweet potatoes
 

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In my home country which is a tropical country yams are bring grown there and I knew it took months or even a year before you can harvest this kind of root crop. .We always make a jam from this yam which makes it to be a delicious kind of sweet dessert.
 

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In my home country which is a tropical country yams are bring grown there and I knew it took months or even a year before you can harvest this kind of root crop. .We always make a jam from this yam which makes it to be a delicious kind of sweet dessert.
Then if it takes almost an entire year for yams they would not produce because of freezing/cold temperatures in most if not all of the US. I guess they could grow in parts of Florida and South Texas though. But why? We have sweet potatoes.
 

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