This study was carried out to assessment yoghourt produced by camel's milk and cow's milk, From September to November (2014),Camel milk was collected from camel research center University of Khartoum ( Shambat),and cows milk are collected from animal production dairy farm college of agriculture studies, Sudan University of science and Technology (Shambat). Fresh camel and cows milk were analyzed and increased their total solids to 15% by skimmed powder milk to improve the coagulation c...
ABSTRACT Two field experiments were conducted during the growing season of 2018/2019 at Zanzibar Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI) Unguja and Pemba. The objective of the experiment was to explore the potentiality of optimizing land productivity through intercropping cassava with sweet potato on limited land available. The experiment was a split-split plot laid out in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with four replications. Improved cassava variety 'Kizimbani' was intercropped w...
This study was carried out to evaluate and compare the physicochemical properties of milk samples from three types of animals: cows, goats and camels. The milk samples were collected from 3 animals, (3×3) (Cow, Goats and Camels) individually from East of the Nile, )Khartoum- State) and analyzed for physicochemical properties including: moisture, fat, protein, ash lactose, total solids, pH, total acidity, freezing point, Boiling point, and specific gravity. The results showed that cow�...
ABSTRACT Simple sequence repeat (SSR) microsatellite markers were used to analyze genetic variation of 70 samples of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Landraces grown in Tanzania. The objective of the study was to assess the extent of genetic variation in traditional rice varieties and establish their genetic relationships for developing breeding strategies. Ten (10) SSR markers were found to be polymorphic with a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 6 alleles. Variability in the number of alleles was obtaine...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to identify socioeconomic factors affecting efficient utilization of Micro Credit among women in Morogoro Municipal. Specifically, the study examined major economic activities that women perform with credit, assessed performance of women activities, identified socioeconomic factors influencing efficient utilization of Micro Credit and determined the extent to which credit money was spent on unintended activities. The study involved 80 respondents in which 75...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to assess the market efficiency of Jatropha value chain by assessing the Jatropha market channels, pricing efficiency, profitability and price transmissions. The data were collected from a sample of 130 Jatropha market chain actors who were randomly selected from the Monduli and Arumeru Districts using a structured questionnaire. Concentration indices were estimated to assess the market power. Market margin was used to estimate the differences between the s...
EXTENDED ABSTRACT The Saadani-Pangani ecosystem form part of the east Africa coastal forests ― and these forests, sitting along the coast of eastern Africa appears as small dotted patches but their biodiversity value is remarkably high. For example, they host about 4,050 species of vascular plants with 43% of them being endemic. The forests are either protected in forest reserves, or occurs in lands under private ownership. However, these forests have traditionally been impaired by suppres...
ABSTRACT Literatures define gender equity as fairness for both men and women by giving them equal opportunities to access and own resources. However, incidents of men squandering income from tobacco and denying their wives of benefiting from the income are common in Urambo District. It seems tobacco earnings are dominated by men. This is in terms of the allocation of resources and benefit sharing at the household level being done in such a way that women and children, particularly in rural a...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to determine the impact of village saving loans (VSL) in improving maize productivity. Specific objectives of the research were to i) Determine the extent of using VSL in accessing agricultural inputs ii) Assess the impact of VSL in productivity of maize at household level iii) Examining the challenges facing the implementation of VSL. The study was conducted in the southern side of the Uluguru Mountains specifically in Kolero, Kassanga, Temekelo...
This study was conducted in both laboratories of plant pathology and tissue culture in College of Agricultural Studies, Sudan University Science and Technology Nine cultivars of Sorghum bicolor collected from Gadarif area were tested for the presence of seed borne fungi. The cultivars were Mugudahmer, Wadahmed, Wadakar. Arfaagadamac, Hageen, Tetron, Dabar, Fatarita and Tabet. Seed health testing included dry inspection in which the seeds were divided into healthy, broken and infected....
ABSTRACT Generally the study aimed to examine the factors which contributed to low performance in Adult Education Literacy Programmes (AELPs) among women in Morogoro Rural District. The specific objectives of the study were; (i) to find out whether formal education prior to joining literacy programmes influenced women’s performance in literacy programmes; (ii) to Examine, whether the literacy programmes were relevant to women’s socio-economic pursuits; (iii) to Investigate the community ...
ABSTRACT This study analysed the performance of cashewnut production and marketing in Mkuranga District. More specifically, the study dealt with identifying major problems affecting cashewnut production and marketing, profitability of cashewnuts and its competing crop enterprises. In addition, an analysis of factors influencing buyers’ net profit was done. The survey was conducted using a sample of 120 households, 24 traders and four secretaries of primary cooperatives. A structured interv...
ABSTRACT As the marketing process becomes more complex and competitive in a globalized market, affluent rice consumers have more power to demand for specific attributes, especially in terms of quality which is defined by attributes of rice, health and safety. Hence, understanding consumers’ preference for rice attributes becomes very important particularly for locally produced rice. Such understand will enable farmers and other actors along the rice value chain to improve rice quality in o...
Research experiment and field survey were conducted during 2016 – 2018 to study the effect of variety and nitrogen fertilization on the agronomic andquality performance of Rhodes grass and to investigate the husbandry practices of Rhodes grass in the major production systems in the Sudan. The experiment was conducted in Shambat (2016-2017) in the demonstration farm of the College of Agricultural Studies, Sudan University of Science and Technology. Two Rhodess grass varieties (Fine Cu...
ABSTRACT The effect of breed and different oil seed cake supplementation on milk yield, composition and milk fat fatty acid (MFFA) composition was studied using 12 Friesian and 12 Ayrshire lactating cows. Control diet contained maize bran (MB) plus minerals. For diet I and II, some of the MB in the control diet was replaced with cotton seed cake (CSC) (34.8%) and sun flower seed cake (SSC) (44.5%) respectively. Milk samples were collected for chemical composition analysis and butter making. ...