Tropical soils are generally fragile and hence highly degraded due to such factors as low organic matter content, dominance of low activity clay, high susceptibility to erosion etc. Coupled with this, there is population pressure on the limited land and this has become a great ch...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22136
Aims: The study was conducted to assess the effects of Rhizobia inoculation, supplemented with phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) under intercropping system on soybean chlorophyll content. Study Design: The design of the experiment was split-split plot with three factors factorial...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/30710
NPK and compost of Centrosema pubescens were studied at the University of Port Harcourt Botanic garden for their effect on the growth components of Manihot esculenta, Crantz (NR 8082) in a crude oil polluted soil. The soil samples were polluted at four different levels (0%, 2%, 4...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/27058
The need to find alternative to inorganic fertilizer which is costly and not easily affordable to local farmers necessitates research in rare areas. Thus, this experiment was carried out at the Plant and Screen house to study effect of urine sources on some soil health indicators...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/29016
Aim: The overall objective of this study was to establish the rates and how much of the transformed or fixed Phosphorus can be available to plants over time, having determined the extent of Phosphorus fixation by both Rustenburg and Loskop soils. Methodology: Therefore, the impac...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/27884
Soil compaction due to land management systems has profound implications on soil Physical properties with consequent effects on soil productivity. The paper at hand assesses soil compaction under three different land use systems (cultivated land, grassland and adjacent forest lan...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/25495
Planting pits are rain water harvesting structures that trap water and nutrients in surface runoff and rain water falling directly into the pits. Planting pits have been promoted for improving crop yields without considering the nutrient dynamics. To contribute to this knowledge,...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/30127
Evaluation of existing groundnut genotypes for nitrogen fixation may be useful as selection criteria for high nitrogen fixation capacity. The objective of this study was to determine extent of effective nodulation and symbiotic nitrogen fixation by groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L)...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/30413
An experiment was conducted at the Agronomy Field Laboratory, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh from June to December 2014 to study the effect of row arrangement and integrated nutrient management on the yield of aromatic fine rice (cv. BRRI dhan34). The...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/30158
This work was conducted to investigate root length and biomass developments at three different growth stages of GS 31 (stem elongation), GS 69 (complete of anthesis) and GS 92 (full grain maturity) of two cultivars for each of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum cv. Konya 2002 and Ger...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/27800
An experiment was conducted in the plant house of the Department of Crop, Soil and Pest management, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria, to examine the efficacy of manuring and incubation periods on the amelioration of the toxic effects of crude oil contamination on...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/27666
Tropical agroforestry systems are considered to have a huge potential to sequester and store carbon (C) both in the aboveground biomass and the belowground biomass, as well as in soil. Compared to many other types of agroforestry systems homegardens are popular in the tropics and...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/29617
Annona senegalensis, generally known as African custard-apple has been indicated to inhibit the growth of pathogenic strains of Shigella flexneri, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa while flavonoids isolated from the stem bark of Annona senegalensis have been shown...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/29957
Coffee fields in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania have been contaminated with copper (Cu) as a result of long term use of Cu-based fungicides. Solubility and mobility of Cu in soils may be detrimental to the environment and human health due to possible leaching thereby contaminating undergr...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/29699
Sodification has developed into severe, world-wide soil problem, especially in arid region. Although the most common method for treating such sodic soils is to replace sodium (Na) with calcium (Ca) using gypsum, replacing Na with potassium (K) is also a possible solution. The pre...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/30159