Aims: In the present agricultural scenario in India, the major thrust is to increase crop productivity with judicious fertilizer application so as to ensure sustainability in crop like fruit production system. Eastern plateau region of India provides ample opportunity for fruit c...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/21560
Agriculture largely depends on climate. Hence, climatic factors such as precipitation, solar radiation, wind, temperature, relative humidity solely determine distribution of crops and their productivity. Changes in temperature and precipitation directly affect performance of the...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20020
An experiment was conducted at the BRRI Regional Station, Habigonj, Bangladesh during December 2012 to May 2013 (dry season) to study the effect of missing elements (NPS) on the soil properties and nutrient uptake of rice var. BRRI dhan29. The experiment was laid out in a randomi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20282
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the substrate inoculation (silty soil) using Trichodermagenus fungi on cadmium phyto-availability and process of photosynthesis disturbances at Arabidopsis thaliana. The two-factor experiment was established, in which the 1st v...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20479
The objective of this was to estimate the price efficiency of catfish grow-out production in Nigeria using parametric stochastic frontier and cost functions. A sample of 143 fish farmers using flow through system were purposively selected from the twenty Local Government Areas in...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/21691
An experiment to identify an efficient strategy to optimize biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) in three soybean varieties {Jenguma (TGx1448-2E), Anidaso and Quarshie (TGx1445-2E)} was conducted in the experimental field of the CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Nyankpa...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20072
Matured African catfish (Heterobranchus bidorsalis), size ranging from 1.40-2.00 kg average total body weight (TBW) and mean length 44.50 cm were procured from a private fish farm and transported in perforated 50 litre water holding capacity jerry can to the hatchery and maintain...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20510
An experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of planting date and plant densities on yield and yield components of sweet corn at agricultural and resources research center of Razavi Khorasan, Iran during 2009 growing season. A split plot experiment, based on randomized...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/19592
This study was conducted to assess the impact of rural infrastructural projects in Ondo State using the bottom-up approach (Community Drive Development) through the Ondo State Community and Social Development Agency (ODCSDA). A multi-stage sampling technique was used. In the thre...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20041
Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient needed for plant growth, root development and grain production. Application of humic acid (HA) is considered to improve the plant growth and enhances stress tolerance. The decrease in amount of arable land and hiking prices of chemical fert...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20455
The aim of this study was to know the effect of planting date (early and late) on the phenology and thermal integral of an accession of Gossypium arboreum L. to evaluate fiber and seed yields and harvest index. Design randomized complete block with four replications (4x3) = 12 ex...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/21054
Field trials were conducted at the Teaching and Research farm of Landmark University Omu-Aran during the cropping seasons of 2013 and 2014 to test the best time of Pendimethalin application in comparison with hoe weeding on weed management and performance of cowpea (Vigna unguicu...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/19988
Aims: Spider plant (Cleome gynandra L.) is one of the most important traditional vegetables in Kenya, albeit underutilized. Concurrently, scanty information is available on its potential for vegetable and seed production. The objective of this study was therefore to evaluate spi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20209
This study investigated the effect of dietary inclusion of probiotics and prebiotics against gut salmonella, haematological indices and serum biochemistry of broilers sourced from Salmonella infected hatcheries within south-west zone of Nigeria. In this experiment, a total of 480...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20076
To determine the parasitism efficacy of Trichogramma spp. on the host eggs of Sitotroga cerealella Olivier (Pyralidae: Lepidoptera) and Corcyra cephalonica Stainton (Pyralidae: Lepidoptera) and to develop the effective field release technique for Trichogramma spp., the study was...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20734