Agricultural production activities are gradually becoming important livelihood diversification among urban and peri-urban households whose main occupation is public service. The study focuses on livelihood diversification through agricultural production activities among public se...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2018/v17i230045
Economics of West African Dwarf (WAD) goat Production by Small Holder Farmers in humid and tropical region was studied using 120 farmers selected from southeast states of Nigeria. The information generated for the study comprised farmers’ socio-economic characteristics and other...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2018/v17i230046
Background: Cowpea plays a critical role in the lives of millions of people in Africa and other parts of the developing world, where it is a major source of dietary protein that nutritionally complements staple low-protein cereal and tuber crops. It is a valuable and dependable c...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2018/v17i230044
Lecithin is usually derived as a by-product of vegetable oil processing. It is also known as phosphotidycholine, it is important for its wide use in food manufacturing, product development as well as pharmaceutical products formulation. The quantity of lecithin being imported int...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2018/v17i230043
Seven canola genotypes selected from early and mid-maturing groups of canola genotypes presently planted in the Western Cape canola production area were grown in 3 litre plastic bags filled with a mixture of sand and compost at ratio of 1:1 and irrigated with fully balanced nutri...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2018/v17i230042
Economic importance of tobacco plantation has long been undeniable for East Java. In this province, especially in Madura, Pamekasan constitutes one of the greatest tobacco producers, cultivated in many types of farm typology such as sawah, tegal, and gunung. This current study ai...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2018/v17i130041
Cacti are ornamental, perennial, succulent and slow growing plants, especially known for their drought tolerant characters (xerophyte). The wide range of forms, shapes, and sizes of their stems and flowers and certain specific characters viz., areoles, spines, glochids etc. make...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/43781
The aim of this study was to determine the best pre-treatment for the optimum germination of Garcinia kola Heckel and also to investigate its early growth characteristics. The study was conducted using 5 pre-treatments, these involved soaking 20 seeds of each treatment in cold w...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/46434
Diego Gonçalves dos Santos, Oscar Mitsuo Yamashita, Marco Antonio Camillo de Carvalho, Lara Caroline Alves de Oliveira, Hudson de Oliveira Rabelo, Lucas de Paula Mera & Adriano Maltezo da Rocha·Journal of Agriculture and Ecology Research International·2019
The corn crop has been cultivated throughout the country, with increasing productivity with the help of technology products. There are greater demand and greater use of improved seeds, associated with treatments of fungicides, insecticides, and bioregulators. It is believed that...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/46526
Cocoa is an important economic crop and has many uses industrially and locally. For its chocolate flavour to be obrained proper fermentation, drying and other postharvest practices needs to be done. A study was conducted to examine the effect of placenta and varied fermentation p...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/45924
Background: There are increasing needs for natural ways to control the population of larger grain borer (LGB), since the use of synthetic pesticides has resulted to disastrous effects on both the environment and non-target organisms. This has been a major concern to chemical ecol...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/21693
The study is on the analysis of the input use efficiency of cocoa production among small scale farmers in Ondo State, Nigeria. The primary objective was to analyze the input use efficiency of cocoa production among small scale farmers in four Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Ondo...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/26814
Anthropogenic activities are progressively releasing pollutants to the soil, including heavy metals and other pollutants emanating from industries and overpopulated human settlements. Pollution by heavy metals and other physicochemical materials is gradually becoming an area of c...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/44994
A field fertilizer trial on groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) was conducted in 2014/2015 cropping season at the Crop Research Farm of the Department of Crop Science, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria (04º 5’E and 07º 25’E., 37 meters above sea level) located in the coastal...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/36651
Aim: To evaluate the potentials of some legumes as in situ green manures or components of relay intercropping with direct-seeded upland rice, and to assess the effect of incorporating their biomass into the soil on residual soil properties. Study Design: The treatments were laid...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/45227