ABSTRACT Merchantable trees in the tropical forest are usually widely scattered and the cost of road construction and logging operations are expensive.
ABSTRACT Soilless farming of vegetables in greenhouse has become a profitable venture in some parts of the world. A high degree of competence in engineering skills, irrigation techniques and cost reduction is required for its successful operation. In Nigeria, the potential of soilless farming in greenhouses has not received adequate attention. The use of soilless media and appropriate irrigation system to produce marketable tomato in a greenhouse were investigated. Roma VF variety of tomato...
ABSTRACT Irvingia gabonensis and Irvingia wombolu are species of bush mango commonly found in Africa whose kernel are processed into soup. Literature generally abounds on the nutritional composition of the fruits and kernel but there is dearth of information on the engineering properties which are very important in the design of processing equipment and machines. This study was designed to investigate the influence of moisture on some engineering properties of seeds and kernels of I. gabonen...
ABSTRACT The increasing incidences of roof failures especially blow-off in recent times in Southwestern Nigeria has become worrisome in view of the damage done to adjacent structures and danger posed to building occupants and owners. There is the urgent need to devise methods to curtail failures and minimize the incidences of blow-off. This study was designed to investigate the causes and patterns of roof failures, recommend curtailment measures and develop a model to predict roof blow-off. ...
ABSTRACT The efficiency of the poultry waste water treatment plant of Zartech Limited, Ibadan, Nigeria was assessed based on percentage reduction on the various water contaminants while the unit cost of treated water was compared with that supplied through tankers.
ABSTRACT Silos are the most appropriate structures for the bulk storage of grains.
ABSTRACT Agricultural water management systems aims to provide crop water requirements to sustain optimum yield.
ABSTRACT The paper simulates the sensitivity of maize crop yield response to temperature increase with appropriate irrigation scheduling that may obviate the negative impact of temperature increase on crop yield.
ABSTRACT A lot of wood waste is generated from wood species in the Nigerian wood mills which are hazardous to the mills, mill workers and the wood.
ABSTRACT The measurement of potential evapotranspiration ET using priestly-taylor formula in humid region was carried out at Shasha along Ojoo-Moniya road, Akinyele Local Government Area, Oyo State.
ABSTRACT The study determined subsurface flow processes of 92.3ha catchment area in order to examine functional relationship among the surface and subsurface flow variables from the water balance components data.
ABSTRACT Effects of climate change on the yield reduction and prediction of vegetable crop was carried out using CROPWAT 8 with irrigation scheduling condition; critical depletion at a water application depth of 2mm, definite interval of 3days at a depth of 2mm and no irrigation.
ABSTRACT The effects of pre treatments on the setting time, maximum hydration and time ratio of two rattan species particles mixed with portland cement were investigated.
ABSTRACT An investigation was conducted to determine the optimum water to cement ratio for a locally manufactured Portland cement for use in wood composites.
ABSTRACT This paper discusses how normal, lognormal, and log pearson type 3 distributions were investigated as distributions for modelling at site annual maximum flood flows using the Hazen, Weibull, and California plotting positions at Ogun-Oshun river basin in Nigeria.