INTRODUCTION In many areas of the United States, soil erosion has become a serious agricultural problem and the State of Iowa is no exception. People attribute this to several causes but increased production of row crops is the principal cause. For example, Moldenhauer and Amemiya (196g) estimated that in the deep loess soils of western Iowa, a corn-corn-soybean rotation without erosion control can result in soil losses as great as 42 tons per acre annually from 9% slopes 300 feet long, or 2...
ABSTRACT In Kenya, the counties of Elgeyo-Marakwet, Uasin-Gishu and Baringo, where maize, wheat and barley are normally grown, can be used to produce a second crop during the off-season (October-February) before the next cropping season or as a rotation crop during the main season (April-August). Introduction of drought tolerant leguminous crops such as chickpea in these counties is ideal in order to provide an alternative source of income to farmers. However Ascochyta blight (AB) disease whi...
ABSTRACT Agricultural markets offer opportunities for households to access incomes and food. Efficient food marketing systems assume a competitive structure thus enabling food distribution from surplus to deficit areas. Liberalization of agricultural markets in developing countries, Kenya included in the late 1980‟s and early 1990‟s aimed at achieving a market oriented economy. Earlier studies on agricultural market reforms have reported varied impacts on market efficiency, thus the need ...
ABSTRACT Thirty-two (32) zealand breed rabbits of both sexes, made up of sixteen (16) males and females were used for the experiment to investigate, the growth and carcass characteristics of weaner rabbits fed four(4) dietary levels of Leucaena leucocephala leaf meal (LLLM). Treatments I, 2, 3, and 4 received 0, I 0, 20, and 30% LLLM, respectively. They were randomly divided into 4 groups blocked by sex of 2 animals per replicate, in a Randomized Completely Blocked Design (RCBD). Means was s...
ABSTRACT Laboratory experiments were conducted in the Department of Plant protection, College of Agricultural Studies, Sudan University of Science and Technology (SUST) to evaluate the lethal effect of seed ethanolic extracts of Coffee senna Cassia occidentalis L. and Damas Concorpus lancifolius Engl. against the second larval instars of the African melon ladybird Henosepilachna elaterii Rossi. Also further experiments were conducted to investigate the efficacy of sesame oil as a synergist. ...
Abstract This study was conducted to determine the effect of the milking system on the bacterial count in raw milk. This experiment was conducted on different milk samples taken from two different Aleppo systems. .The results showed significant differences (0.05) in the bacterial count of manual and automatic milking samples for bacterial types Bacteria (bacillus, staphylococcus, salmonella, E.coli , Streptococcus and micrococcus) (25, 16,7,25,0,8,0,25,16,7,16,8) respectively, where the resu...
Abstract This is a sorption study that focused on the use of mica clay mineral grouped into mica untreated, activated mica at 800 °C, mica impregnated separately with iron and aluminium for defuoridation of water. In this study, characterization of adsorbent was done by using XRF and XRD and quantifcation of fuoride by using fuoride ion selective electrode. Characterization of adsorbent showed the presence of SiO2, CaO, P2O5, Fe2O3 and Al2O3 in the adsorbent. XRD exhibited higher compositi...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to monitor and survey the fruit fly species in Slait area north of Khartoum Bahri locality, during the period from November 2017 to March 2018 to identify the major species. Hence a Survey was carried out using, the food traps (guava juice) and sticky traps (Methyl Eugenol) for capturing prevailing species in Slait area. The results of the survey showed that there are two types of fruit flies, the peach fruit fly (Bactrocera zonata), which was the dominant...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess and evaluate the potential impact and implications of Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Sudan and the European Union (EU) on the performance of its agricultural trade. The study depended on secondary data obtained from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of EPA, Ministry of Foreign Trade, Central Bank of the Sudan, Statistics Directorate and other relevant sources. The Armington model was used to estimate the potent...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to evaluate the nutritional composition through analysis of wild and hormone treated Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus. The fifteen samples of each wild and sex reversed were measured. The mean weight of wild species samples were (225.9 ± 19.9 g), while sex reversed samples were (169.9±46.3 g) with, significant difference (𝑝 < 0.05). The result of chemical composition presented was as mean percentage to moisture, Fat, Crude protein and Ash all which c...
Executive Summary Increasing energy prices and the availability of new small generation technologies are encouraging many small consumers and mid-sized business to consider alternative energy sources. Renewable energy sources include power from wind, solar, hydro and biomass projects. Alberta Agriculture Food and Rural Development would like to develop the steps required to effectively interconnect small and mid-sized generation applications to the electrical utility systems. The steps for i...
Abstract The present study was conducted at Al Rahad Turda North Kordofan State. The main target of this study was to investigate the impact of fish introduction in Al Rahad turda on the development of the local community mainly the impact on the fisher men and fishing activity, the impact on market mediators and fish marketing and to study the impact on fish consumption .For data collection three questionnaires were designed for fishermen, market mediators and final consumers. Descriptive a...
ABSTRACT This investigation dealt with determination of some properties and suitable uses for four lesser used wood species grown in the Blue Nile State. Four of the secondary wood species which are available in reasonable quantities in Blue Nile State, but are not in common use were selected for this investigation. The selected species comprised: Sterculia setigra (tartar), Acacia polyacantha subsp. campylacantha, (kakamut), Acacia seyal var. seyal (talh) and Diospyros mespiliformis (goghan...
ABSTRACT This research was designed to study the effect of credit acquisition and repayment on Agricultural production in Cross River State. The major objective is to study the effect of credit acquisition and repayment on agricultural production in the state. Specific objectives included: determination of credit disbursement and recovery strategies of agricultural credit institutions, determining and comparing agricultural production among beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of credit schem...
Abstract Adaptation to Climate Change (CC) is the adjustment in natural or human system in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects. To cushion and curb the devastating impacts of CC in South East Nigeria, there is great need to build resilience and capacities of institutions towards more lasting and far reaching approach to CC adaptation. With the phenomenon of CC becoming so alarming, building adaptive capacity, including providing tools and information, raising awa...