Indigenous and adopted food-bearing trees play a crucial role in ensuring food security during food shortages and on a daily basis in rural and urban communities in Tigray. However, information on their nutritional composition is still lacking. The objective of this study was to...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2025/v11i1360
The allocation of water from irrigation reservoirs to urban drinking supplies directly reduces the quantity available for agricultural use. Understanding this impact is crucial for evaluating changes in agricultural performance and crop yields. This study aimed to assess the effe...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2025/v11i1359
Maize production in Pakistan faces numerous challenges that hinder large-scale cultivation as well as production. These challenges are primarily biotic, includes weeds, nematodes, disease pathogens, and pests (both vertebrate and invertebrate). Furthermore, there are a number of...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2025/v11i1358
Agricultural mechanization level means ratio between mechanical energy to total energy (sum of animal, human and mechanical energies) used in crop production. Crop production practices in the Gezira scheme depend on two energy sources, labor and machinery. The objectives of this...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2025/v11i1357
Alemu Dabi, Ruth Duga, Gadisa Alemu, Berhanu Sime, Demeke Zewdu, Negash Geleta, Tafesse Solomon, Abebe Delessa, Habtemariam Zegaye, Dawit Asnake, Bayisa Asefa, Abebe Getamesay, Tilahun Bayisa, Endashaw Girma, Tesfaye Mitiku, Ayele Badebo & Bekele Abeyo·Asian Journal of Research in Agriculture and Forestry·2024
Food security is a major challenge in developing countries, including Ethiopia, due to factors like population growth, limited food production, malnutrition, and environmental degradation. Improving wheat yields in Ethiopia is crucial, but affected by diseases and environmental s...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2024/v10i4356
Wheat, a vital staple crop feeding 35% of the global population, faces significant threats from plant diseases and climate change, with Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) being one of the most severe challenges. FHB, primarily caused by Fusarium graminearum, leads to substantial yield lo...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2024/v10i4355
Shifting cultivation, particularly the jhum system, has been a long-standing practice in Northeast India, sustaining the livelihoods of indigenous communities. This paper aims to reevaluate the enduring practice of shifting cultivation in Northeast India, acknowledging its deep h...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2024/v10i4354
Wheat is considered one of the utmost grown agricultural grain crops in the world to meet the food requirements of the domain’s population. In Ethiopia, wheat is one of key cereal crops whose area of cultivation and volume of produced boosted year after year. However, the product...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2024/v10i4353
Communities around the forest need a kelulut (Heterotrigona itama) honey bee business because it has many benefits, including producing healthy bee products, products with high economic value, and can be an alternative livelihood for the community, especially those around the for...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2024/v10i4352
Two new verification test fungicides namely Cayunis EC 325 (Bixafen 75g/L +Spiroxamine 150g/L + Trifloxystrobin 100g/L), and Tridium 70 WG (Mancozeb59.7%+Azoxystrobin 4.7%+Tebuconazole 5.6%WG and evaluated with standard checks called Nativo SC 300(trifloxystrobin 100 gm/lt + tebu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2024/v10i4350