Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach that helps to guide the actions required to change and devise agriculture management techniques to effectively support growth and ensure food security in a changing climate scenario. The objectives of CSA are sustainably increase agr...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/37451
This study was aimed at assessing and comparing the quality of groundwater for safe use in two geologic formations (Basement complex and sedimentary) of Katsina State, Nigeria. A total of twenty (20) boreholes; ten (10) from each formation were selected at random from various loc...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/41524
A field experiment was conducted at Agronomy Research Area, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during Kharif season 2016 to assess the impact of manure and nitrogen on phenology, yield and energy use efficiency of pearl millet hybrid (HHB-223). The trea...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/37473
Escherichia coli (E. coli) cause a variety of intestinal and extra-intestinal infections, such as urinary tract infection, diarrhea, meningitis, peritonitis and septicemia. E. coli still remains the leading bacterium that lives in the digestive tract of humans and animals. A tot...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/37290
Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam seeds have potential starch content, which can be used for different end uses. Characterization and application of Jack Fruit Seed Starch (JFSS) as a substitute to commercially available, Arrow root starch (ARS) for sizing of cotton fabrics (Cambric a...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/41633
For last few years, honey bee disappearance by the destruction of the entire colony attracted the attention of many researchers where they used the term colony collapse disorder (CCD), but, they failed to explain the exact reason of this phenomenon. Many schools of thoughts are t...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/38218
Shoreline Intertidal and Midchannel–subtidal polychaete assemblages of the Bonny River in Nigeria were studied during the months of July, August, September and October 2013 to represent the wet season and December 2013, January 2014, February to March 2014 to represent the dry se...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/39419
This study was conducted to investigate the influence of strain on production traits, egg fertility, hatchability, dressing percentage, survival and docility of indigenous Guinea fowls in Ghana. A total of 700 keets (F1 generation) hatched from four strains of indigenous Guinea f...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/44123
Forecast models play a fundamental role in anticipating the effects of the energy demand in buildings to addressing the energy crisis. A forecast model for anticipating from one to three days every 30 min of the building energy demand is presented. In this model, a feed-forward a...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/44836
Aims: To Study on the Effect of nitrogen levels on growth and yield of mustard (Brassica juncea Curzen and Cross.) varieties under late sown condition Study Design: The Field experiment was laid out in a Factorial randomized block design used in this study. Place and Duration of...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/43605