ABSTRACT Tomato (Lycoperscium spp.) is an important component of daily dietary intake with seasonal and geographical variation in its production. They are usually in short supply in the dry season and effective storage in the fresh state still poses a challenge. Pre-treatment methods have been reported to improve drying characteristics of fruits and vegetables but there is dearth of information on drying of indigenous variety of tomato despite its high nutritional value. Pre-treatment methods...
Abstract: One of the most important and largely consumed African Indigenous Vegetables (AIV) is amaranth. It is known to have a high nutritional value, agronomical assets and economic attributes. Amaranth production is however constrained by numerous biotic factors such as insect pests, occurring as a complex of species among which lepidopteran defoliators are found to be the most destructive. Investigations on their bio-ecological and control options were conducted. Field experiments were c...
Abstract: Tomato is widely grown vegetables in southern Ethiopia produced by small farmers for fresh fruit and for cash-generating for growers. However, the productivity of the crop is low due to many constraints of which inappropriate types and rates of fertilizer used irrespective of varietal and soil type differences are among the major constrains. Hence, field experiment was carried out in 2018/2019 cropping season to assess the effect of NPSBZn fertilizer rate on yield, yield related tr...
The relatively high cost of making theatre sets to match the scenic symbology of dramatic productions in contemporary Nigerian theatres has engendered a rather unsavory scenic practice evidenced in the repetitive use of stock sets. Besides the sense of movement that is seriously dislocated, these sets are used without recourse to the technical problems associated with structural weakness, media weight, surface corrosion and stereotypic defects. However, the problems generated by this te...
In our world today, even in every education system, abstract knowledge alone would not be sufficed to prepare an educated person for the world of work without practical skills. The worker or productive individual must not only be knowledgeable but must also be versatile in the application of skills to perform defined task or work. There are two basic forms of learning; the first one is Education and the second one is Training. Both of which are indispensable to the productive world of work an...
Hydroponics or the soilless cultivation is a popular and fast growing sector of agriculture and it has many advantages over soil-based system. It offers opportunities to provide optimal conditions for plant growth and therefore higher yields can be obtained compared to open field cultivation. In the aggregate system of hydroponics, different substrates are currently being used as support to the root system of plants under soilless cultivation. Substrates can be organic such as peat, pine bark...
Abstract Complementary foods were formulated from fonio and cowpea, indigenous cereal and legume grains respectively. Both fonio and cowpea grains were prepared into flours. Blends of 50:50, 60:40 and 70:30 (w/w) fonio and cowpea flours respectively were prepared. The blends were conditioned to 22% moisture content (dry basis) by adding calculated distilled water and 5% vegetable oil was thoroughly mixed with each blend. The blends were separately extruded using a single screw extruder at 140...
Abstract Cowpea (Vigna Unguiculata L ) has a variety of uses in Zimbabwe. The crop can be used as food, leaves as vegetable for human and stems as fodder for livestock. Maximising both leaf, grain and the above ground biomass yield of the dual purpose cowpea is one of the ways to improve food security in the country as well as nutritious hay in winter for livestock thus ensuring sustainability in agriculture which is being threatened by climate change. A research was carried out to find out...
ABSTRACT The nutritional needs of elderly people in society appears to be ignored or not sufficiently prioritized. This study was conducted in Jasikan community. It investigated the diet quality of the elderly. The research methods used for the study were survey, and observation. The study employed the cross-sectional design. Ninetyeight (98) elderly people were sampled via multistage sampling technique for the study. Questionnaire with Crobanch’s alpha 0.775, and observation checklist were...
Abstract The distribution, nesting habits and activity as well as seasonal population pattern of Camponotus acvapimensis Mayr were studied in a savanna area of Ghana* The ants were distributed in the poor shaded areas of the savanna grassland* Type of soil, light and food availability were found to influence the nesting and anti’s distribution. Analysis for preference of nesting sites indicated that the ants nest in the soil or grass roots but where wood is available, the bark formed a ve...
Abstract: Onion (Allium cepa L.) is an important vegetable crop in Ethiopia. However, the yields of the bulb crop as well as seed are often constrained by low and imbalanced nutrient supply in soil particularly nitrogen and phosphorus. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted at the research station of Shire-Maitsebri Agricultural Research Center (SMARC), located in Tselemti Woreda to study the effect of inorganic NP fertilizers and vermicompost on growth, seed yield and seed quality of o...
Arugula is a collective name for a number of species of Brassicaceae with pungent leaves, but principally Eruca satia. Eruca sativa is an edible annual plan growing 20-100cm in height, leaves are deeply pinnately lobed with 4-10 small lateral lobes and commonly known as rocket salad, rucola, rugula, roquette and arugula. It is also an herb vegetable that belong to the Brassicaceae family and a native of central and southern Europe, but have also been spread to Northern America. It is typicall...
ABSTRACT A theoretical study of the production of Technetium-99m (99mTc) using a cyclotron has been conducted. A nuclear reaction model code (Talys code) was used to generate reaction cross sections as functions of particle energies for 100Mo (p, 2n)99mTc reaction channel which would lead to the direct production of 99mTc. Excitation function for the desired reaction channel for the production of 99mTc and excitation functions for the reaction channels of competing products (contaminants) we...
Abstract/Overview Abstract. Groundnut (Arachis hypogea L.) is a major oilseed crop and has economic and nutritive benefits for rural farmers. Although the adoption of new technologies and increased contact with extension agents as one way of increasing production has improved production, productivity of groundnut remains low. This study used the ex-post facto research design with the aim of analyzing the socio-economic determinants of groundnut production in Kenya. Using purposive, multis...
ABSTRACT The research is aimed at the understanding of the various diagnostic plots for the analysis of water production that are available as well as the application of these methods in a case study. It also aimed at the establishment of a work flow for the evaluation of water production mechanisms. A workflow was developed that combines numerical simulation and diagnostic plots to analyze the water production performance in a reservoir. This workflow was validated using a case study. The m...