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Agricultural Sciences is an international journal dedicated to the advancements in agriculture throughout the world. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists, students, academics and engineers all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different are…
Maira Rubi Segura-Campos, Lourdes Manrique-Reynoso, Luis Chel-Guerrero, David Betancur-Ancona
The objective of this research was to determine the physicochemical characteristics of fiber residues from Jack bean ( Canavalia ensiformis L.) obtained by two technological processes . The proximal composition of the fiber residues from Canavalia ensiformis…
George W. Mmbaga, Kelvin M. Mtei, Patrick A. Ndakidemi
Land scarcity and poor farming management practices has resulted in to intensive agriculture which rendered most of the soil in sub Saharan Africa depleted in essential plant nutrients. High prices of chemical fertilizer are crucial bottleneck toward increasi…
H. K. J. Bokossa, A. Saïdou, E. Sossoukpe, D. E. Fiogbé, D. Kossou
In spite of the relevance of current studies on the importance of organic fertilizers such as animal manure in improving the health of ecosystems, little is known about the biochemical mechanisms affecting the availability of nutrients released from the organ…
Christopher L. Brown, Tingbao Yang, Kevin Fitzsimmons, Remedios B. Bolivar
Growing global needs for food call for substantial increases in protein production in coming years, and for diligent conservation efforts. Manures from farm animals have been viewed both as a resource and as a waste product, but they are critically important…
Masato Oda, Kenji Tamura, Hiroko Nakatsuka, Miki Nakata, Yukimi Hayashi
It is known that cropping causes soil carbon loss, which is a critical issue, especially in tropical agriculture. Nitrogen input generally increases net primary production but does not increase soil carbon content because nitrogen input enhances soil organic…
W. A. Jimoh, O. A. Fagbenro, E. O. Adeparusi
The response of catfish fed differently timed wet-heat-treated sesame seedmeal was evaluated in the diet of Clarias gariepinus using growth performance, nutrient utilisation and apparent digesti-bility coefficient as indices. Three batches of sesame seed, whi…
Trygve Gjedrem, Nick Robinson
During the last 40 years it has been shown that well planned family-based breeding programs yield high rates of genetic improvement for aquatic species. The genetic gain has been greater than 12% per generation for growth rate and for disease resistance when…
Michael E. Ikehi, Francis M. Onu, Florence O. Ifeanyieze, Patrick S. Paradang
The study focused on the impacts of climate change on the farmer and the farming families in Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. The study specifically evaluated the perceived resultant situations attributed to climate change to determine the extent of impacts of…
Regina W. Mwanauta, Kelvin A. Mtei, Patrick A. Ndakidemi
Synthetic insecticides are widely known to control insect pest, but due to high operational cost, environmental pollution, toxicity to humans, harmful effect on non-target organisms and the development of insect resistance to this products, have created the n…
Charles Tortoe, Solomon Dowuona, Nanam Tay Dziedzoave, Deborah Rees
Curing of freshly harvested yams ( Dioscorea spp.) is a process for wounded yams during harvest to heal. In this work the effectiveness of straw, polypropylene and jute sack on curing of seven key farmers’ yam varieties over a duration of 7, 14 and 21 days wa…
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