Aims: The application of organic and inorganic fertilizers to the soil is considered a good agricultural practice as it helps to improve the fertility of the soil and the quality of plant products. However, the effect of some fertilizers on crop yield is not always positive when...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2017/30047
Reduction of poverty is still a vital concern and main challenge for Ethiopia, the second most populous country after Nigeria, in the SSA. With the government’s consistent implementation of its Poverty-Reduction-Strategy (PRS) Ethiopian households experienced a decade of remarkab...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/32642
Low temperature stress adversely affects plant growth and development and it directly affects the yield and quality of tomato. Phenolic compounds have been implicated to mitigate cold stress. Therefore an experiment was conducted to find out suitable concentration of phenolic com...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32889
Aims: The main aim of this preliminary screenhouse experiment was to examine the growth and fruit yield of a hybrid tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum (L) Mill) variety ‘ROMA VF’ at different rates of poultry manure compost (PMC). Study Design: The experimental design used was the r...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2017/32018
Aims: The aim of this study was to examine the effect of replacement of conventional concentrate mixture with Moringa oleifera on growth performance and carcass characteristics in growing lamb. Study Design: The design of the experiment was a completely randomized design (CRD) wi...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/31329
This study was designed to investigate the efficacy of palm bunch ash on the growth and nutrient composition of Phaseolus vulgaris affected by diesel oil pollution of soil. The model chosen for this study was the growth and nutrient composition of Phaseolus vulgaris. The Study wa...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2017/31310
Pot plant growers must take two technological critical decisions: the pre-transplant plug-cell size and the post-transplant growing medium, both of which have been mentioned as abiotic stress sources for bedding pot plants, including Impatiens walleriana. However, only a few rece...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/31997
One of the ways of increasing soil nutrients and crop yield is by applying fertilizer which could be from inorganic or organic sources. Pot experiment was conducted at the screen house of the Teaching and Research Farm of Faculty of Agriculture, Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeri...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2017/31907
The goal of this study is to examine the effectiveness of financial innovation in driving growth in Nigeria using quarterly data from 2009:Q1-2014:Q4. The Least Squares (Gauss-Newton/Marquardt steps) based on vector autoregressive (VAR) system was used to estimate our system mode...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2017/30809
Citrus aurantium L. is the most used rootstock in Morocco. The use of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can favor the good growth of this species. A study was conducted under the greenhouse to assess its reaction to mycorrhizal colonization. Citrus aurantium L. plants were inoculated...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/31389
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
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
This study consisted of laboratory incubation and pot experimentation. Laboratory incubation was conducted at the Chemistry Laboratory, College of Agriculture, Lafia. The pot experimentation was done in the screen house of faculty of Agriculture, Nasarawa State University Lafia c...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/30926
Syed Tarik Mahabub, Md. Shahjalal Hossain Khan, H. E. M. Khairul Mazed, Srabantika Sarker & Md. Hassan Tareque·Asian Research Journal of Agriculture·2016
The experiment was conducted at the farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period from March to June 2014 to study the effect of cowdung on the growth, yield and nutrient content of mungbean (Vigna radiata L.). The variety...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/29297
Aim: To evaluate the influence of tillage practice on growth and yield performance of three cowpea varieties. Study Design: The treatments were laid out in a randomized complete block design with a factorial arrangement and replicated three times. Place and Duration of Study: Stu...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2016/26894