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Problems of Chemical Control in Agriculture: An Environmental Perspective

Belmiro Saburo Shimada, Marcos Vinícius Simon, Vinícius Bueno da Silva & Diego Sidney de Oliveira Nunes · Journal of Experimental Agriculture International · 2021

Introduction: In the environment, agriculture has been causing several environmental problems due to the use of chemicals in agriculture, and mainly of agrochemicals, causing serious damage to the environment and the environment in which we live. The use of chemical products occu...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jeai/2021/v43i730712

Crop Rotation: A Sustainable Practice for the Management of Diseases

Belmiro Saburo Shimada, Marcos Vinícius Simon, Inglid Laís Batista Cunha de Souza & Fabiana Tonin · Journal of Experimental Agriculture International · 2021

The management and environmental impacts influence agricultural production, diseases, in turn, can interfere and cause damage to the crop at different times and parts of the plant, due to economic loss, it is necessary to use disease control methods. To maintain sustainable agric...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jeai/2021/v43i730710

The Role and Sustainability of Community-based County Government Funded Agricultural Infrastructure Projects: A Case of Community Cattle Dips and Acaricides Use in Kilifi, Kajiado and Nakuru Counties

Lenny Mwagandi Chimbevo, Norbert Adum Atego, Paul Sifuna Oshule, Job Mapesa, Suliman Essuman, John Huria Nderitu, Micah Nyabiba Asamba & Chris Ngeny · Journal of Agriculture and Ecology Research International · 2021

The study objective was to provide baseline and reference data on status and use of acaricides based on type or active ingredients by individual farmers and in public cattle dip maintained by county governments. The survey was conducted through a cross-sectional study in three co...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jaeri/2021/v22i430195

Management of Construction and Demolished Waste as an Aggregate Substitute in Cement Concrete

Jayasmita Mahakud, Siba Prasad Mishra, Ramesh Chandra Mohanty & Sagarika Panda · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2021

India is in the process of modernization in the construction sector by repairing, renovation, up-gradation. Presently concrete, the universal building materials whose main ingredient is coarse aggregate.  The local natural resources like stone products and sand may exhaust and pu...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i530415

Burning Season: Challenges to Conserve Biodiversity and the Critical Points of a Planet Threatened by the Danger Called Global Warming

Diniz Pereira Leite Júnior, Elisangela Santana de Oliveira Dantas, Roseli de Souza, Marcelo Henrique de Souza, Lucas Hudson Durigon Ramos, Monaliza Sehn, Valmir Silvano Siqueira, Maria Madalena de Oliveira & Anagela Maria Acel Silva · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2021

Aim: Due to their biological richness and threat levels, the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, along with other regions located in different parts of the planet, are identified a global hotspots and need greater attention due to the problems generated by global warming....

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i530409

Legume-Maize Intercropping System: An Alternative Pathway for Sustainable Agriculture

Faisul-ur- Rasool, M. I. Bhat, Z. A. Dar, B. A. Lone, Latief Ahmad, S. A. Hakeem, Z. Rashid, S. Naseer, S. Bashir, S. Majid & S. Nissa · International Journal of Plant & Soil Science · 2021

Intercropping provides ample scope to include two or more crops simultaneously in same piece of land thus targeting higher productivity from unit area on sustainable basis. Maize, a cereal crop of immense importance, planted in wide rows offers the possibility for adoption of int...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i1630527

Design of a Community-Based Anaerobic Digester for Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Ile-Oluji Ondo State Nigeria

R. I. Areola & O. O. Ipindola · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Aim: A Community-Based Anaerobic Digester was designed in this study for sustainable solid waste management in Ile-Oluji, Ondo state Nigeria. Methodology: Waste samples were collected from selected households for a period of one month and the components and percentage composition...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i917377

Challenges in Implementation of Green Chemistry in Indian Pharmaceutical Sector

Arushi Kapoor & Smita Mehendale · Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International · 2021

The alarming environmental pollution caused by pharmaceutical Industries has led to the growing importance of Green Chemistry in India. It is high time that the pharmaceutical industry that is considered as a red category by the environment ministry, adopts green chemistry &...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i34A31836

Assessment of Industrial Symbiosis Implementation Opportunities: A Study in a Selected Industrial Zone, Sri Lanka

E. A. C. P. Karunarathne & W. A. P. Madhushan · Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology · 2021

Most Sri Lankan Industries discharge or dispose of many waste materials in large quantities in solid, liquid, and gaseous forms. Due to the high cost of treatment, many industries dispose of wastes either to dumpsites or lowlands through third-party contractors. The haphazard dis...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajee/2021/v15i330230

Influence of Gender and Age with Consumers ‘Green Behavior’

Usha Rani Vistharakula & Vandana Kaushik · Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology · 2021

The demographic profiles of consumers play a vital role in ascertaining the buying habits, sources of information, and other factors that may affect product/brand choice etc. One of the objectives of the present study therefore was also to identify the relationship of selected de...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/cjast/2021/v40i1231384

An Assessment of Integration of MSMEs and CSA into Livestock Red Meat Value Chain: A Case Study of Kajiado County, Kenya

Mary W. Thongoh, H. M. Mutembei, J. Mburu & B. E. Kathambi · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2021

The livestock sector is a major contributor to food security, livelihoods, and is most affected by climate change, but is also a major contributor of GHGs. While climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has been adopted to mitigate the effects of climate change it has focused more on smal...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430387

Genetic Gains to Grain Yield of Maize Varieties for Small Farmers in Brazil

Ana Paula Candido Gabriel Berilli, Rafael Nunes de Almeida, Luis Eduardo Gottardo, Monique Moreira Moulin, Messias Gonzaga Pereira, Sávio da Silva Berilli, Julio Cesar Fiorio Vettorazzi, Roberto dos Santos Trindade & Robson Ferreira de Almeida · Journal of Experimental Agriculture International · 2020

The demand for expanding the genetic base in working collections of older maize breeding programs points to the need to pool efforts and reaffirm methodologies for conserving genetic variability that can still be accessed in maize populations. The objective of the work was to sel...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i1230622

Evaluation of the Symbiotic Efficiency of Rhizobium Strains Applied to Bituminaria bituminosa (L.) Stirton

Omar Zennouhi, Abderrazak Rfaki, Mohamed El Mderssa, Jamal Ibijbijen & Laila Nassiri · Microbiology Research Journal International · 2020

Aims: The study aimed to evaluate the effect of inoculation by different rhizobacteria on Bituminaria bituminosa plants grown under greenhouse conditions. Study Design: An experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out at the Department of Biology (Env...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/mrji/2020/v30i930262

Effect of Project Design on Sustainability of World Vision Community Development Projects in North Rift Kenya

Agneta Chepchumba Pkassan & Geoffrey Kiptum Kimutai · Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology · 2020

Sustainability of the funded projects is of utmost importance if the impact of funding these projects is to be realized. Despite project feasibility studies being done prior to commencement of the projects, sustainability is still not guaranteed. Thus, the main purpose of the stu...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3531050

Estimating the Fiscal Reaction Function for Namibia

Evelina Julius, Jacob M. Nyambe & Omu Kakujaha Matundu · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2020

This paper estimates the fiscal reaction function for Namibia with the aim of establishing how the Government of Namibia responds to changes in debt levels. The VECM and the ARDL models were adopted to explore the reactions between the two variables. Both the VECM and ARDL confir...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jemt/2020/v26i830283