Organic manures are known to be rich sources of both macro and micro nutrients of the crop. They also help in improving the physical status of the soil. Pot experiments were carried out to determine the effects of poultry manure on some soil chemical properties pH, organic C, ava...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/32419
Introduction: An experiment was conducted during the period from October 2012 to April 2013 at Horticulture farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh to evaluate the response of bell pepper with foliar feeding with micronutrients and shoot pruning. Methods:...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31620
Sustainable food production has become a subject of interest to policy makers in rural China in the quest to consolidate food security in the midst of an escalating population. Adopting Cobb-Douglas production function and employing cross-sectional data from 1990 to 2013, this pa...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/32153
Aim: To assess the growth performance of Clarias gariepinus fed diets containing cotton leaf powder and the control diets. Study Design: Completely Randomized Design (CRD). Place and Duration of the Study: Department of Animal Production, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Kwara State Un...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31639
Aims: This research aims at testing the efficacy of different botanical leaf extracts, (Lantana camara, Moringa oleifera and Tagetes minuta) on soft rot fungi, Rhizopus stolonifer in vitro. Study Design: The experiment was carried out in a 3*2 Factorial arrangement +2 controls in...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/28371
Plant assemblage organization along physical environmental gradients remains a central issue of community on local, regional or continental scales. Mount Oku, commonly known as Kilum-Ijim, situated at the North-west Cameroon has the most important remnant of Afro-montane forest i...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31743
Field experiment was conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm of the University of Port Harcourt in 2012 to evaluate the response of Golden Torch (Heliconia (psittacorum × spathocircinata) and weeds to Primextra-Gold ® (Atrazine 370 g/l + Metolachlor 290 g/LSC and Gardoprim A®...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/30527
The study ascertained productivity and gender/ intra-household roles in rice production in Awka North Local Government Area, Anambra State, Nigeria. Ninety farmers selected from three and nine town and village communities respectively constituted the respondents for the study. Da...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/30824
Inadequate information on the status of agricultural lands can lead to misuse, mismanagement and degradation. Hence, the need for proper assessment methods for effective land management and sustainable production. This study was set out to characterize, conduct suitability evalua...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31943
Seeds of five cotton genotypes viz., CB-8, BC-0236, SR-08, BC-0125 and BC-0252 were assessed to observe the effect of packing materials on physiological quality of cotton seed stored under ambient condition. The packaging materials were hermetically sealed polythene bag (thicknes...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31204
Aim: An experiment was conducted to analyze the canopy characters and light-use efficiency along with yield of five modern wheat varieties viz. BARI wheat-23, BARI wheat-24, BARI wheat-25, BARI wheat-26, and BARI wheat-27. Study Design: The experiment was laid-out following a Ran...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31744
Nitrogen (N) is an essential macro nutrient for plant growth and development. Plants absorb nitrogen in either ammonium (NH4+) or nitrate (NO3-) forms, which influence plant growth and absorption of nutrients in higher plants. The aim of the study was to determine the influence o...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/30907
The last decade in Nigeria saw useful scientific contributions in biomonitoring different environmental matrices and understanding their health indices, however with scanty toxicological evidences, especially their oxidative stress response and oxygen affinity. The present study...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31568
How plant species are distributed in a given ecosystem is important for ecologists and conservationists because tropical forests are very diverse. This makes the question of what determines species commonness and rarity more interesting. This paper aims to assess the environmenta...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/30953
Scarcity of fodder is the major limiting factor for increasing livestock production in Kenya. With rising energy costs and declining water levels in the semi-arid tropics and sub-tropics, crops that use less water like finger millet could become an alternate fodder crop. The fodd...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31120