Aim: To evaluate the organoleptic, pH and pasting properties of unripe plantain (Musa paradisiaca), soybeans (Glycine max) and ginger (Zingerber officianale) as edible sources of food which can be processed into flour for several purposes. Methodology: The plant materials (unripe...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i630150
There has been a sharp rise in the rate of waste generated on a global scale, owing to a rapid growth in population and urbanization. Enormous amounts of waste are being produced yearly. To illustrate the gravity of this situation, in 2018, there was a gargantuan estimate of 85 t...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530148
Drip irrigation system uniformity can preserve a higher crop yield and deplete the initial investment of cost. The experiment was conducted at precision farming development centre research farm, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, to evaluate the uniformity coefficien...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530170
The Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) are very important organisations for promoting agricultural development at the district level through the various trainings and other development programmes they offer. One way of knowing how effective these KVKs are in catalysing district agricul...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530169
Recently, wavelet transform (WT) has been enormously effectual in various scientific fields. As a matter of fact, WT has overcome the FFT in the difficult nature data tackling. A wavelet entropy based probabilistic neural network (PNN) for classification applications is proposed....
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530145
This study compared organic and chemical fertilizers on qualitative yield and essence content of peppermint. The experiment was carried out as Randomized Complete Design in Agricultural Farm Center, Sari, Iran, in 2013. The treatments were as control, vermicompost, composed sheep...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530146
Baby corn (Zea mays L.) is a short duration crop, relatively new introduction in India and a potential option for raising farmer’s income being a high value crop. This crop may open new alternatives since fits well in the cropping systems and grown year round in a wide range of c...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530147
An experiment was conducted to determine the combined effect of biofertilizers and biocontrol agents on growth and yield of brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) under low cost polyhouse during off season in the experimental polyhouse of the College of Agricultural Engineering and Post...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530143
Nitrogen dioxide emission is part of atmospheric pollutant that has been linked to climate change. Artificial neural network model were used to investigate nitrogen dioxide distributions in Nigeria at a selected points. The study areas used in this work are thirty six (36) points...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530144
Aim: This systematic review article recommends how one who yearns and willing to control/lose weight in order to prevent obesity can be assertive and committed to the intended course. Study Context: The study started at the last lap of study in United Kingdom 2014 and concluded i...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i430142
Objectives: This work was carried out to investigate the efficacy of upsee therapy program with an enriched stimulating active environment on improvement gross, fine motor abilities and weight bearing distribution in spastic diplegic cerebral palsy children. Method: Thirty childr...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i430141
Aim: To study the effect of microwave radiation with power density 100,150 and 200 microwatt / cm2 (μW/cm2) of exposure on male reproductive system of Mus musclus Swiss albino mice. Study Design: Twenty mice were used in the experiment, they were divided randomly and assigned i...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i430138
Rainfall in Nigeria is highly dynamic and variable on a temporal and spatial scale. This has taken a more pronounced dimension due to climate change. In this paper, Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) and Coefficient of Variability statistical tools were employed to analyse rainfa...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i430139
The study was conducted to analyse the impact of social cultural factors on the management of deep pools in Likangala River during Lake Chilwa recession period. A comprehensive survey which covered 120 households was carried out. Using logit analysis, the study showed that the u...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i430140
Production of biogas is dependent on composition of organic fuel. Evaluation of different compositions of organic fuel for biogas production using fuzzy modeling was conducted. Eleven variants of composition were determined. For evaluation of these variants an existing method bas...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i430135