The Yam (Dioscorea spp.). Characteristics, uses and medicinal value. Important aspects of this crop development
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Abstract
presenting a considerable increment, occupying a new
dimension in the alimentary chain and being present in the
development of the family agriculture. In this paper was made
a revision with the objective of giving to know the potentialities
of the yam, as well as to gather information that can be
interesting to specialists that begin in the yam, and to farmers
motivated in the same one. Inside the aspects related with the
cultivation of the yam (Dioscorea spp.), considering its
characteristics, aspects ethnobotanical, geographical
distribution, uses more frequent, propagation; as well as their
socioeconomic importance for developing countries, so much
from the alimentary point of view, as medicinal and industrial.
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