This experiment was carried out during the fall season 2009-2010 in the vegetable greenhouse, Horticulture Department, Dohuk University. Three pea cultivars namely Local crinkle, Local Smooth and Canadian were subjected to three irrigation levels where plant irrigated whenever 25...
Three watermelon cultivars were grown on land flooded with an irrigation depth 10 cm which was sustained for 1, 2, and 3 week periods before planting date besides, unflooded control land. The obtained results revealed that growing watermelon on land flooded with 2 weeks period wa...
An experiment was conducted at Shambat Agricultural farm to study the effect of pesticides residues on soil and potatoplant. Potato was planted on January, 2009 on ridges with a spacing of 70 cm between rows and 10 cm between plants. Sevin and Malathion pesticides were added at d...
Field trial was conducted at the upland rice experimental field of the National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI), Badeggi, Nigeria (lat 09045΄ N Long 6007΄ E) in 2008 and 2009 to determine the efficacy of different methods of weed control and their profitability in inter-speci...
In this study 18 new corn varieties consist of 15 foreign early and mid-mature single cross hybrids and 3 Iranian commercial hybrids (KSC704, KSC647and DC370) were evaluated at two sowing date (5 and 20 June) based on RCBD with 3 replications at Khorasan Razavi Agricultural Resea...
Studies on the effectiveness of some indigenous plant extracts as inhibitors of egg-hatch in root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita race 2) were carried out in the Plant Protection Laboratory of Institute of Agricultural Research & Training, Obafemi Awolowo University, Moo...
Precision agriculture (PA) concept was initiated for site specific crop management as a combination of positioning system technology, variable rate technology, remote sensing, yield mapping etc. to optimize the profitability, sustainability with a reduced environmental impact. Fr...
Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the most important cereal crop in Nigerian agriculture. The crop occupies a crucial place than other cereal crops since it is used as food, feed, fodder and other industrial raw material. The aim of this study was to conduct a comparative study on th...
This research intends to carry out a comparative study, on the yield of hybrid and open-pollinated maize, with the involvement of farmers in Giwa local government area of Kaduna state. Specifically, it evaluated existing hybrid and open-pollinated maize production technologies by...
The study aimed to measure the competitiveness of the Sudanese sheep export from 2001/02 to 2006/07. The study depended mainly on primary data which was collected through questionnaire. Also, secondary data was collected from relevant sources related to topics of the study. The d...
The root knot nematodes are included within the genus Meloidogyne Goldi, 1892 and belong to a relatively small but important polyphagous group of highly adapted obligate plant pathogens. Typically, they are distributed worldwide and parasitize nearly every species of higher plant...
In this paper an effort has been made to design a methodology for the determination of probability of selection for the cases where more than one measure of sizes are involved, especially in the case of agricultural sample surveys. So far no effort has been made for the cases of...
Two best performing, morphologically different sweet potato varieties namely, Balella and Bareda, were used to determine optimum spacing between plants and rows in central rift valley of Ethiopia by participating different influential factors from the commencement of the activity...
The microbial flora of fish feeds was investigated in this study. Commercially available fish feed samples were procured from sales outlets in Asaba, southern Nigeria. Three common fish feeds of three different particle sizes each, Coppens (6mm, 4.5 and 3mm), Dizengolf (10mm, 4.5...
A field experiment was carried out on the neutral soil of Student’s Instructional Farm, Barajaguli, B. C. K. V., Nadia, West Bengal with groundnut during pre-kharif season (Feb-June) of 2001, 2002 and 2003. It revealed that in increasing plant height (cm), no. of branches per pla...