TABLE OF CONTENTSDECLARATION IIIAPPROVAL VDEDICATIONS ViACKNOWLEDGEMENT viiLIST OF ACRONYNIMS viiiABSTRACT ixCHAPTER ONE 11.0 INTRODUCTION 11.1 BAcKGROuND TO THE STUDY 11.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 31.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 41.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 41.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 4CHAPTER TWO 52.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 52.1 VALUES AND NATURAL FUNCTIONS OF WETLANDS 52.1.1 Major economic uses 62.1.2 Ecological Functions 72.1.3 Socio~Economic Functions 82.1.4 How valuable are Uganda~ wetlands? 92.2 HuMAN ...
ABSTRACT The topic, the application of the marketing concept in the marketing of agricultural products is an interesting topic, which has given the researcher a challenging opportunity to investigate, and was able to come forward with certain facts about the topic. As the topic implies, the marketing concept is a philosophy that holds that the customer satisfaction is the social and economic justification for the existence of a business agriculture as a form of business is not in exemption ...
INTRODUCTION The beauty of agriculture is that every waste product from a sector can be recycled and used for the benefit of another sector, thereby leading to profit maximization and cost minimization. This can also be applicable in fisheries where aquaculture; which is the rearing or farming of economically important aquatic plants and animal in a confined environment is combined with any other form of agriculture like crop science, animal science, soil science amongst others which are cult...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to find out the causes of wetland degradation in Jinja District, Uganda. The study covered the awareness of the people on wetlands; the values of the ecosystems; and the impacts of wetland’ degradation, so as to come up with strategies for better management and conservation of the Lake Victoria wetlands. This study found that wetland degradation was attributed to by anthropogenic factors including industrial pollution, over-harvesting, dumping, in...
TABLE OF CONTENTSDeclaration iiApproval iiiDedication ivAcknowledgement vList of Tables viList of figures viiList of acronyms viiiDefinition of terms ixTAble of contents xABstract xvCHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION1.1 Background1.2 Statement of the problem1.3 Objectives 21.3.1 Main objective 21.3.2 Specific objectives 21.4 Research questions 21.5 Significance of the study 21.6 Organization of the study 31.7 Scope and Delimitation of the study 3xCHAPTER TWO’,4LITERATURE REVIEW 42.0 Introduction 42.1 ...
Abstract Water and fish samples were collected monthly from each of the four sampling Sites from August to September 2019 with the aid plastic bottles, hook and line and a gura trap from river Ngadda, Maiduguri, Borno state. A total of 16 fishes belonging to Clarias garipienus were sampled throughout the sampling periods. One fish from each station was dried before digestion and other was digested in its fresh form. The samples were transported to Soil Science Laboratory, Faculty of Agricul...
EXTENDED ABSTRACT Lake Victoria is an important freshwater resource in Tanzania and its neighbouringcountries namely Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC). Millions of people dotted around the lake depend on it as a major source of household and industrial water supply, irrigation, transport and provide for fishing as the main source of animal-derived protein as well as income. In Tanzania, the lake provides employment opportunities to more than four mill...