Fifty persons have been trained in Igbo-Ukwu, Aguata Local Government Area on how to cultivate yam in bags, by an illustrious son of the community, Professor Uchenna Nwosu as a way of encouraging land economy and cultivation of yam in large quantities for food sufficiency.
The trainees who were selected from Holy Trinity Parish Igbo-Ukwu were exposed to various procedures in planting yam in bags, starting from how to cut the yam, to harvesting.
Correspondent, Emmanuel Okonkwo reports that before now, people from this part of the world knew nothing about cultivating yam in bags until recently when a young man from Umunachi, Mr Sunny Okafor introduced the practice in Anambra state.
Uchenna Nwosu who is a Professor of Medicine, said he got the idea of cultivation of yam in bags from a viral video of Mr Sunny’s yam-in-bags farm, and decided to step down the knowledge to others as a way of battling food scarcity and land wastage, having tried the practice last year and had a bumper harvest.
He explained that cultivation of yam in bags does not only discourage land wastage, but also reduces stress for farmer as it is only on the day of cultivation and harvesting that work is done on the farm, because weeding and other farm activities are not required.
In a remark, the Archdeacon Igbo-Ukwu Archdeaconry, Venerable Emmanuel Nwankwo thanked Professor Nwosu for sharing the idea with them, and assured that the participants will step down the knowledge garnered for reduction of hunger in the state.
In separate interviews, some of the participants, including Reverend Eric Chikwendu, and Mrs Helen Onyawue described the new trend in yam farming as awesome and stress free, saying that they would immediately key into the practice.
Professor Nwosu who took the participants round his compound where he cultivated five hundred yams in bags, also distributed yam seedlings to them shortly after the training as a way of encouraging them to practicalize what they learned.
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