Famous Proverbs
7 Proverbs about Yams
1.
Preparing cocoyams for planting does not mean that they are already planted.2.
One cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed-yams.3.
A farmer does not boast that he has had a good harvest until his stock of yams lasts till the following harvest season.4.
The heap of yams you will reap depends upon the number of mounds you have plowed.5.
If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant.6.
The one who hasn't strength to pound yams pretends to drive away flies from the yams.7.
What is in the yams that a knife doesn't know.1