Aims: The study was conducted to assess the quality of tubewell (TW) waters for irrigation and their effects on soils and crops. Place and Duration of Study: Canal Command Area (CCA) of Chichawatni and Sahiwal tehsils of district Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan during 2012 and 2013. Me...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15969
A study was conducted to evaluate the feeding value of Moringa oleifera leaf meal (MOLM) as part of feed ingredient on the growth performance, carcass characteristics, and economic efficiency of weaner pigs. A total of forty-five (45) weaner pigs of mixed sexes of age 7-8 weeks o...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15262
Aims: General well being of animals is of paramount interest in some developed countries and of global importance hence the shift to alternative housing systems for egg-type chickens as replacement for conventional battery cage system. However, there is paucity of information on...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15291
Genetic variability of 23 Napier grass clones, 22 of which were collected from Kenya Agricultural Research Institute – at Alupe in Kenya was determined using 17 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. All markers were polymorphic with the most discriminative being PSMP2267. Average...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/14641
This study was carried out in the Teaching and Research Farm of the Department of Crop Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka to determine the effects of different sowing media on emergence and growth of moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam) seedlings in the nursery. The moringa seeds u...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/13602
Three different varieties of tomatoes, Alawusa (TX1), a local variety with four lobes (TX2) and another local variety with two lobes (TX3) were sliced and dried in an oven at 55ºC for a period of four hours. The dried samples were packaged in polythene bags labeled TX1, TX2 and T...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15772
Fry management in aerated, none aerated aquarium and hapa system were determined in Fish Hatchery of Faculty of Agriculture, Shabu Lafia, Nasarawa State University Keffi, Nigeria to assess condition factor, percentage survival rate, increase in total body length and percentage we...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/8353
Aims: Endometritis is a major postpartum disease that affects dairy cattle productivity which is accompanied by heavy economic losses to the farmer. The status of Clinical endometritis (CE) and Sub-Clinical Endometritis (SCE) in sub-Saharan Africa is poorly understood, thus the s...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15816
The study was conducted to assess The effect of charcoal and honey on the zoo technical performance and gut morphometry of broiler birds fed naturally aflatoxins contaminated maize based diets in a comparative study was carried out. In a completely randomised design, 240 one-week...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/13012
A field experiment was conducted in loamy sand soil during kharif season of 2009 and 2010 to evaluate the temperature use efficiency and yield of groundnut varieties in response sowing dates and fertility levels. The treatments consisted of four sowing dates (20 April, 15 May, 9...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/13689
Aim: This study was conducted to assess the influence of different water and rice straw management practices and rice genotypes on growth and yield of rice in Uganda. Study Design: Field experimental design was a Randomized Complete Block Design while the screen house study desig...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15631
A multivariate analysis was performed on some soil nutrient and Cone Index (CI) data from the research and demonstration farm of the Dept. of Agricultural Sciences, University of Juba in South Sudan. The main objective of the study was to characterize the spatial distribution of...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/14807
This study was conducted using 96 day old broiler chicks, to assess the most appropriate level of inclusion of whole millet meal as a substitute for maize. The inclusion levels of the whole millet were 0, 20, 40 and 60% of the maize content of the control diet. The birds were ran...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/14400
Steeping of dormant jute mallow (Corchorus olitorius L.) seed in hot water at high temperature for enhanced germination, seems to be the most favoured of all other methods. Literature however, appears to be silent on the cooling protocol to adopt to ensure high quality after a se...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/12517
This research aimed to evaluate the effect of salt and temperature stress on water uptake and respiration of watermelon seeds during germination process and to quantify changes in the activity of the antioxidant enzymes ascorbate peroxidase (APX), catalase (CAT) and glutathione-S...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15749