Grain amaranth (Amaranthus hypochondriacus L) has high potential to substitute expensive animal protein because of its high nutritional value and is potential to reduce protein malnutrition in Kenya. However, its production and consumption are low. Nitrogen fertilisation is amon...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43110
Aims: Quality protein maize (QPM) is one of the major food crops in Ethiopia. However, agronomic management practices were not properly developed for QPM production in the highland areas of Ambo, central Ethiopia. Methodology: A field experiment was conducted at Ambo Crop Protect...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43160
Purpose: To evaluate the vermicomposting potential of Eudrilus eugeniae and Eisenia fetida earthworms on decomposition of various organic wastes through worm growth and production of nutrient rich vermicompost. Methods: Two local Eudrilus eugeniae earthworms (Debrezeit and Keshma...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/42986
Intensive farming practised in the agro-ecological zones of Makonde plateau (C2) and Inland plain (E5) of south-eastern Tanzania without proper soil management has led to nutrient depletion. The objective of the study was to assess the fertility status of soils in Bambara groundn...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41970
The effects of time of sowing cowpea into pineapple-pepper intercrop on growth and yields of cowpea and pepper in a pineapple-pepper intercropping system was investigated during the rainy and late seasons of 2011 and 2012 in Akure, a humid rainforest zone of Nigeria. The additive...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/36824
Increasing agricultural land area has proven beyond every reasonable doubt that it is not the solution to low yield in agricultural produce. Soil management strategies could improve the productivity and also enhance sustainability. Today’s soil management strategies depend solely...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43220
Ultraviolet radiation considered one of the environmental stresses that widely disturb most of the physio-biochemical processes in the plant. However, previous studies referred that irradiation of plant tissues with a low dose of UV-B radiation stimulates adaptive mechanisms and...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43479
A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of multinutrient (NPKZn) briquettes on the availability and movement of Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K) and Zinc (Zn) in soils. The experiment was laid out in a Randomised Block Design with five treatments and four...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43252
Fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis) is an important indigenous leaf and seed vegetable of West Africa. It is among the neglected and underutilized crops with high nutritional, medicinal and industrial potentials. Twenty five genotypes of fluted pumpkin collected from eleven s...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/16119
Host resistance offers the cheapest way of disease management with no environmental concern of pesticide residues. This study was conducted during kharif to identify sources of resistant genotypes against Mungbean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV) in mungbean. Here, pre-released mungbea...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/44005
Maize has a greater significance in irrigated condition and is used as human food and animal feed. In recent years, it is being realised that apart from the major nutrients, the role of secondary nutrients in general and sulphur in particular in increasing yield and quality of ma...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43615
Aim: Ipomoea batatas is one of the tuberous roots produced in Benin for its nutritional and economic interests and whose diversity remains unknown. This research work aims to evaluate the phenotypic variability within sixty-four landraces collected in South and Central Benin. Met...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43470
In the present study, the effect of different treatments on the growth parameters of Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal was evaluated. Soil samples were collected from the oil spill site by stratified random sampling method, i.e. near the well (NW), 20 metre distance, 40 metre distanc...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43564
Integrated use of synthetic and organic fertilizers is crucial to sustainable crop production and stabilization of depleting soil fertility. Keeping in view these certainties, a three-year field study was undertaken to evaluate the potential of anaerobic digestate alone or in int...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43255
Aims: In recent years the wine industry in Mexico has increased its production as a result of exports and recognition for its wine quality abroad. An actual problem related to lack of berry pigmentation at harvest time was found in the cultivar Cabernet Franc. Its consequences i...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43001