The agricultural input industry in India plays a pivotal role in supporting the country's vast and diverse agricultural sector. Foreign companies control a large portion of the Indian market. The overarching goal of the current study was to evaluate the market share of various pe...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2026/v44i42914
Contract farming is a system for the production and supply of produce by farmers/primary producers under advance contracts, the essence of such arrangements is a commitment to provide an agricultural commodity of a type, at a specified time, price, and in specified quantity to a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2026/v44i42915
Information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially mobile-based platforms like WhatsApp, are bringing about a paradigm shift in agricultural extension systems in India. This research looks at the benefits and drawbacks of using WhatsApp groups for farmer education and...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2026/v44i42916
Marine algae have attracted a great deal of interest as an excellent source of bioplastic due to their hydrocolloid properties and rich polysaccharide. This research focuses on the development of bioplastic products from Gracilaria salicornia and Halimeda opuntia with Zinc Oxide...
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Research Article10.9734/ajacr/2026/v17i2387
Background: Climate variability and increasing rainfall irregularity in West Africa, particularly in the Sudanian savanna zones of Côte d'Ivoire, pose significant challenges to stable cereal production. Consequently, there is a critical need to identify crop varieties that combin...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i43821
This study investigated the potential of indigenous phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) to address phosphorus limitation in the semi-arid tropical soils of Sangareddy district of Telangana state. By isolating microbial strains from diverse rhizospheric environments and employin...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i43822
The present study evaluates the antimicrobial efficacy of ethanolic extracts from Cinnamomum zeylanicum and Illicium verum against bacterial strains isolated from spoiled vegetables and selected human pathogenic microorganisms. In recent years, plant-based antimicrobials have att...
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Research Article10.9734/ajriz/2026/v9i2268
The mining of lithium has grown at a very high rate all over the globe owing to the rising demand in lithium-ion batteries in renewable energy technology and in electric vehicles. Nonetheless, mining operations can cause heavy metals to enter the local soils, which can be fatal t...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2026/v10i2228
Substance use and criminal behavior present persistent challenges in correctional and community supervision systems in the Philippines, often compounded by peer influence, economic hardship, and limited coping skills. Therapeutic Community (TC) programs are structured interventio...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i32936
This study investigates the histological effects of nitrofurantoin, a widely used nitrofuran-class antibiotic for treating urinary tract infections (UTIs), on the kidneys of male albino rats. Nitrofurantoin, effective against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, is excreted...
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Research Article10.9734/ijanr/2026/v9i192
This study examined how road design influences the market value of commercial properties along Peter Odili Road, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Peter Odili Road is a major commercial corridor in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and provides a useful context for examining how road design influenc...
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Research Article10.9734/ajgr/2026/v9i2383
Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) is a holistic approach to maintaining soil fertility and optimizing plant nutrient supply for sustained crop productivity. By integrating various sources of nutrients—including organic inputs (farmyard manure, poultry manure, crop residues, gr...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2026/v12i2675
To address the issues of degraded detection accuracy and high false-positive rates caused by densely distributed workpieces and complex background interference in industrial sorting scenarios, this paper proposes an improved object detection algorithm based on YOLOv5l, termed SCS...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i41850
The work focuses on designing a comfort-cooling evaporative system for a pilot building in Owerri, using data derived from the building’s thermal conditions. The initial step involved estimating the building cooling load by identifying key design parameters, namely ambient climat...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i41851
Gold has a substantial economic worth; it is an indispensable economic commodity for investment, sensitive electronic design and applications. Nonetheless, both the adverse environmental impacts and high cost of operations emanating from the complex processes engulfing gold extra...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i41852