The effects of Moringa oleifera leaf meal and raw and cooked seed meal as a replacement for synthetic antibiotic (tetracycline) on carcass characteristics, heart and liver histology of broiler chickens were assessed in a 7-week feeding trial. The design of the study was a complet...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/25302
Field experiments were conducted in Akure and Oda communities in Ondo state within the rain forest zone of Nigeria between 2010 and 2012. Single and combined effects of shade and irrigation were investigated on soil temperature, soil moisture variations and cacao seedling develop...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/22628
The quality of the growing medium stands out as one of the most important factors affecting the success of annual plants, especially when grown in potted culture. Recently, we have suggested that growing medium gives not only a matrix for water and nutrient absorption but also a...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/26144
This study was conducted to test changes in seed storage longevity of lettuce seeds at ambient monthly mean temperatures mimicked in five different regions of Turkey, for 28 months and moisture contents of 7, 9 and 11±0.1%. Hermetically stored samples were removed from storage ev...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/25526
Harvested feed costs, particularly during the winter, are traditionally the highest input associated with a ruminant livestock operation. Although swath grazing has been practiced for over 100 years and literature exists for cattle use of swath grazing, no published results are a...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/25197
Common bean is the most important pulse crop in Kenya, though small scale farmers involved in its farming have limited access to quality seeds resistant to pests such as bean stem maggot, thereby limiting its production from potential yield production of 2000 kg ha-1 to less than...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24915
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of tillage implements on potato yield and water use efficiency. The study was conducted at a private farm at Al-Kharj Governorate, Saudi Arabia during 2015 in randomize complete block design with three replications. Three pri...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24950
Aims: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of foliar application of boron (B) on the grain set and yield of wheat (cv. Shatabdi). Study Design: The experiment was designed with six boron treatments, arranged in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with thre...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/24286
The effect of varying levels of commercial probiotic on the performance, microbial status and carcass quality of broiler chickens was investigated in a 42-day experiment between March and April, 2014. Two hundred (200) one-day-old broiler chickens were randomly allotted to 4 diet...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/25082
Vigna subterranea is a leguminous species which produces edible seeds (Bambara groundnut). Its seeds are included in the daily diet to compensate the lack of proteins in the food which occurs frequently in populations under the tropics. However information regarding the extent an...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/20592