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This is one of the best specie of potatoes we have here. Personally I love potatoes, not Irish potatoes but these very sweet ones. With these kind of potatoes you may not need any spice to eat them. Either cooked or raw we just consume a whole lot of potatoes here.

Potatoes and yams are some of the tubers we cultivate with a lot of cassava too which we often process into flour. These three tubers can all be processed into tubers for consumption.

It is vital to preserve the seedlings for the different species of the tubers we plant so that we can have access to them for seasonal planting. Unlike the seeds for grains and vegetables that are readily sold in the Agric stores and market you hardly get seedlings for these ones hence after each harvest it is important to preserve these seedlings if we desire to plant them in the coming seasonal planting.

Potatoes are much easier to preserve than yams, for these you plant the vegetative parts in a specific location and keep them alive via continuous irrigation. It is important to preserve the vegetative plant like this because they stay viable and when a next planting season comes it becomes very easy to plant, propagate and have them cover the entire ground like this.

For yams, often times the head of the tuber that you can see above is what we plant. To preserve this we keep it in a well lit and aerated area away from direct sunlight. Some people build barns where they harvest and hang these tubers in a cool environment. Yams get rotten when exposed to direct sunlight and rotten or cracked tubers cannot germinate when planted. Only quality seedlings of the big yam tubers are often kept.

These aren't readily available at the market, hence anyone wishing to plant yams must preserve them. For the potatoes one can always replant tiny tubers of potatoes to generate new vegetative parts for planting but for the yams once the seedlings are lost you can no longer have access to them for planting again.