Download or read book Ignames written by Jacques Miège and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yams, an important tropical crop, provide some 18 million tons of food a year in West Africa alone. These papers treat plant improvement, agronomic studies and taxonomy, plant protection, post-harvest biology and technology, economics of production, and mechanization.