Mit Kenana area, 40 km North of Cairo, represents the eastern fringes of the Nile Delta in Egypt. Existing laterals spacing design of Mit Kenana area is reviewed. Then spread sheets are employed to obtain laterals spacing, which is referred to as spread sheet design. Microsoft Ex...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/32845
Inadequate rain is a major hindrance to soil moisture and crop root growth in arid and semi-arid areas of Kenya. A field study was conducted in Ganda, Vitengeni and Matuga locations within the coastal lowland region of Kenya from May, 2012 to April, 2015 to evaluate the effects o...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/32934
The rising increase in the quest for wood materials necessitates the need to produce more within the shortest time. This can be achieved by increasing the seedling growth of the tree species either by improving the fertility level of the rooting medium or using the most suitable...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/32878
A field experiment was conducted during 2010-12 at Research Farm of Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) to study the effect of levels of N (0, 60, 120 and 180 kg ha-1), Zn (0, and 10 kg ha-1) and B (0 and 1.0 kg ha-1) on yield, N, Zn and B concentr...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/33135
A field experiment was conducted at Forest College and Research Institute, Mettupalayam, Tamil Nadu, India to study the growth performance of Neolamarckia cadamba, Acrocarpus fraxinifolius and Dalbergia sissoo under drip irrigation. The biometric attributes viz., height, basal di...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/33913
An experiment was conducted at the Research Farm of the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur, Bangladesh during 2015-2016 to study the performance of the selected wheat variety based on some morphological t...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/31046
Wadi Khulab considers one of the most important wadis in Jazan, south-western Saudi Arabia. Thus the current work provides an analysis of the floristic composition, life form and chorology of plant life of the wadi, a total of 119 species related to 93 genera represented 44 vascu...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/33047
The concentrations of some heavy metals (Cd, Cr and Pb) were determined in top soil and (Amaranthus caudatus) samples from irrigated farmlands in Yamaltu, Gombe State, Nigeria, using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS). The results show that the heavy metals contents were h...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/32859
A study was conducted in the screen house at the FAO/TCP teaching and research farm of Adamawa state University, Mubi to assess the effect of wastewater from fish pond and Moringa oleifera leaf extract on the mineral composition of maize plant. Results showed that the concentrati...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/32552
Daniel Schwantes, Affonso Celso Gonçalves Jr, Alfredo Richart, Luiz Schulz, Jéssica Manfrin, Andréia da Paz Schiller & Eduardo Schulz·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2017
The high concentration of N, P and other components present in sludge from wastewater treatment plants make it economically interesting the application in agricultural crop, as soil biofertilizer. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of the application of bio...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/33549