Mushroom flora is an important component of the ecosystem and their biodiversity study has been largely neglected and not documented for the tropical moist deciduous forest regions of Bangladesh. This investigation was conducted in seven different areas of tropical moist deciduou...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17301
Aim: To determine the effect of feeding growing grasscutters a concentrate diet without forage. Study Design: The experiment involved three treatments with three replicates per treatment in a Completely Randomized Design. Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out in...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17264
Aims: The purple leaf blotch (PLB) disease, for which there is no released resistant variety in Bangladesh, causes loss in production of onion in every year. The mutants of a released variety, BARI Piaz-2 has shown to possess resistance against PLB which is yet to be characterize...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17504
A study was conducted at the Experimental Farm of the Cross River Basin Development Authority, Oku-Iboku, Itu in Akwa Ibom State in 2012 and 2013 cropping seasons. The aim was to evaluate seven genotypes of guinea white yam (Dioscorea rotundata Poir.) accessions at the last stage...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16496
Chickpea is an important legume crop in Amhara region. The harvested grain of the crop could be stored for more than six months to look for better price and/or as insurance for food security. In the store Callosobruchus chinensis (L.) cause considerable damage to the grain. Noug...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17428
The aim of this work was to assess heavy metal concentrations of samples collected from areas around a volcanic mountain in Tanzania. Fifty five soil samples and 10 samples of bean leaves were analysed using Energy Dispersive X- ray Fluorescence spectrometry (EDXRF). The concentr...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16991
This study examines the socioeconomic factors that influence farmers’ willingness to accept monetary compensation to engage in tree planting and to evaluate realistic payment of incentives. Contingent Valuation method was employed to elicit bids levels of 200 farm households in G...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16348
This work was carried out at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Yaoundé Nkol bisson. Ten improved and four local cultivars of taro were used to carry out a pathogenicity test of Phytophthora colocasiae isolates from which one virulent isolate from both im...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/14814
Valdinei Tadeu Paulino, João Batista de Andrade, Erika Maria Celegato Teixeira, Keila Maria Roncato Duarte & Márcia Atauri Cardelli de Lucena·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2015
In integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS), grain crop and pasture development may affect the soil organic carbon stocks and chemical soil fertility and help to renew degraded pastures, increasing land use efficiency and endeavor income. Our objectives were to evaluate changes i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17306
The growth performance of Clarias gariepinus Burchell, 1822 fed Gliricidia sepium leaf meal and supplement with enzymes (Roxazyme®) and Maxigrain® were examined. The fingerlings having weight of about 6.34±0.43 g were stocked in12 plastic aquaria with 50 liters capacity at the ra...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15321
A field study was conducted during rainy (kharif) season of 2013 to find out the effect of bioinorganic nutrient combinations on yield, quality and economics of mungbean [Vigna radiate (L.) Wilczek]. The twelve treatments comprised one control, three levels of inorganic sources (...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17065
In the present study, the influence of soil properties on pre-emergence herbicide effectiveness was estimated in bioassays. Dose-response experiments were carried out to estimate the relationship between soil organic matter content and herbicide efficacy. Two weed species (Alopec...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17341
This experiment was done to identify the most stable durum wheat genotype(s) as well as desirable environment(s) for durum wheat (Triticum turgidum var. durum Desf.) research in north western Ethiopia. Grain yield performance of the tested genotypes were evaluated at four locatio...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/9994
A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of Jatropha curcas leaf extract on the performance and carcass characteristics of broiler chickens. One hundred and fifty day old Arbor Acre broiler chicks were used. They were divided into five treatments and each treatment was replic...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/10580
A quasi-continuous automatic recording system of apparent electrical conductivity data of soil (ECâ‚) was assembled to obtain at a reliable and fast rate, spatial distribution maps of this physical parameter. The device was moved manually throughout several profiles in a small z...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/17410