Cássio Furtado Lima, Roldão Carlos Andrade Lima, Amaury Paulo de Souza, Luciano José Minette, Stanley Schettino, Marlice Paes Leme Vieira & Glícia Silvania Pedroso Nascimento·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2019
Occupational hazards arising from physical agents present in wood harvesting equipment may cause irreversible damage to the health of exposed operators. Thus, the objective of this study was to quantify the noise and vibration levels emitted by three types of wood harvesting equi...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v40i530379
Ninety snails Archachatina marginata (Swainson, 1821), which comprised 30 each of adults (325.43 ± 2.03 g), growers (119.05 ± 1.05 g) and snailets (33.05 ± 1.00 g) were used to determine the lifecycle nutritional and bio-safety benefits of consumption of snail meat. This study wa...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v40i530377
Jean-Noël Ehounou, Brou Kouamé, Mathias G. Tahi, Emmanuel K. Kassin, Jacques Alain A. Kotaix, Charles S. Dékoula, Guy F. Yao, Hypolith K. Kouadio, Angelo E. B. N'guessan & Nagnin Soro·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2019
Ivorian cocoa production, which still remains the driving force of the national economy today, despite the increasingly pronounced diversification of the State's resources, has long benefited from relatively favorable climatic conditions. However, since the 1970s, recurrent disru...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v40i530378
Aims: We aimed to evaluate the structure and successional classification of component shrub-arboreal in the edge and interior environments in a remnant of Tropical Forest in Pernambuco, Brazil. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in a remnant of the Lowland Ombro...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v40i530375
The present study had as objective to know the effects of the natural fertilizer, from a biological compound of Efficient Microorganisms (EM-4), applied to the soil and in cover of quinoa, over its phytotechnics properties and its production. The experiment was conducted in a gre...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v40i530376
Angélica da Silva Salustino, Ivan Sérgio da Silva Oliveira, Marailze Pereira dos Santos, Ana Paula Pereira do Nascimento & Marcos Barros de Medeiros·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2019
The species: Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) stands out as one of the main pests of banana. The damage to the crop is caused by the larvae of this pest, when they feed on the plant tissues. The aim of this study was to investigate the olfactory response...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v40i430373
Yield performance of early maturing maize (Zea mays L.) varieties in the rainforest agroecology of southwest Nigeria, is lower than that of intermediate varieties and that there was no yield advantage in the late varieties over the intermediate maturing varieties. However, the p...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v40i430370
Murielle Magda Medeiros Dantas, José Flávio Cardoso Zuza, Josinaldo da Silva Henrique, Adailza Guilherme Cavalcante, Joaquim Emanuel Fernandes Gondim, Ana Carolina Bezerra & Manoel Alexandre Diniz Neto·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2019
Aims: The objective of this study was to evaluate the coprolite production of native earthworms in a pasture with Brachiaria, with and without liquid-enriched biofertilization. Place and Duration of Study: The experiment was carried out between April of 2014 and August of 2015 at...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v40i430371
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of poultry waste meal (PWM) on growth of Clarias gariepinus juveniles The growth response of juveniles of average weight 6.5g fed poultry waste meal (PWM) was studied for 70 days. The poultry waste meal comprised the dropping...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v40i430372
The effect of cassava peel (CPL) incorporation (0,5, 10 and 15%) in the diets of growing snails (average initial weight 66.0 ± 0.15 g) on the growth performance, shell morphological changes, digestibility of nutrients, carcass yield and mineral element composition of the meat w...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v40i430368