The study investigated the price movement and market integration of rural and urban price of brown and white cowpea in Gombe State, Nigeria. Monthly market prices (measured in Naira per kilogram) of brown and white cowpea in the rural and urban markets from January 2009 to Decemb...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v11i330053
The world is facing two major challenges: one is to meet the exponential growing demand for energy particularly in developing and underdeveloped countries and other is to deal with global, regional and local environmental impacts resulting from supply and use of conventional ener...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v11i330052
Agricultural produce of vegetable growers is often lost after production due to many marketing challenges which make it difficult for vegetable growers to explore full market potentials and these also reduce incentives of participation in formal (commercial) or high-value markets...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v11i230050
R. G. A. S. Rajapakse, M. P. T. Premarathna, Shyamalee Kohombange, D. G. N. S. B. Jayasinghe, H. A. S. Rohana, H. G. Gunathilake, K. R. C. de Silva & A. K. Rathnayake·Asian Journal of Advances in Agricultural Research·2019
Gray mold caused by Botrytis is the major problem in iceberg lettuce cultivation in poly tunnels in Sri Lanka. Currently management of this disease of lettuce depends mainly on foliar application of fungicides. Continues application of fungicides for control of gray mold could no...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v11i230051
An experiment was conducted with one hundred and eighty (180) unsexed day old broiler chicks of Arbor acre strain to investigate the effect of feeding diets supplemented with water soaked sweet orange peel meal (SOP) on the performance and carcass characteristics of broiler chick...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v11i230049
The work was conducted on sunflower seeds of two cultivars namely ‘Kironi’ and ‘Hysun-46’. Proximate composition of the seeds, chemical characteristics and fatty acid composition of the oils, and its keeping quality at different storage conditions were studied. Moisture content o...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v11i230048
A 90-day study was conducted to determine the response of semi intensively managed West African dwarf sheep to concentrate supplement containing varying levels of neem leaf meal (NLM). Twenty (20) West African Dwarf sheep aged 5 to 6 months with an average weight of 10kg were use...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v11i230047
New Rice of Africa (NERICA) is drought tolerant and early maturing inter specific rice variety which was introduced in Bangladesh from Uganda in 2009. But the field record of NERICA was not very promising. In order to develop NERICA varieties suitable for agro-climatic conditions...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v11i130045
The excessive unjustified use of some kinds of fertilizers has seen some farmers realizing poor quality fruit that does not appeal to the final consumer, thus negatively affecting the effort of alleviating poverty in the Kingdom of Eswatini. This experiment was carried out at the...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v11i130043
Declining soil fertility is a main reason for the slow growth in food production in Africa. However, the practices of incorporating fertilizers could potentially improve soil fertility and productivity. This experiment was carried out to determine the efficacy of inorganic fertil...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v11i130042