Sesame is an important oilseed crop due to its different types of commercial application. The produced oil from sesame uses for food and beauty care product preparation due to its high nutritive value. However, the yield of sesame is comparatively low than other oilseed crops. Ni...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2019/v31i530064
Cowpea can fix atmospheric nitrogen through symbiotic association with indigenous rhizobia but unfortunately, the amount of N2-fixed is usually not enough due to the presence of ineffective or low numbers of indigenous rhizobia in the soil. The effect of Zinc applications on grow...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v35i530215
Plant growth-promoting fungi (PGPF) have attracted considerable interest as biofertilizers and biocontrol due to their multiple beneficial effects on plant quantity and quality as well as their positive relationship with the ecological environment. The objective of this study was...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2019/v16i230119
Climate variability has been and continues to be, the principal source of fluctuations in global food production in countries of the developing world and is of serious concern. Process-based models use simplified functions to express the interactions between crop growth and the m...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v35i130166
Blossom end rot (BER) is one of the physiological disorders of economic importance in tomato farming since it significantly reduces yield and thus affects profit margins. Most tomato disorders are due to mineral deficiencies and unbalanced nutrition. Improving the supply of speci...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2019/v18i230056
To investigate the effect of various transplanting dates on yield and yield attributing characteristics of Nerica rice mutants at drought prone areas, Ishurdi and Chapai Nawabgonj during aman season. Two advanced Nerica mutant lines (N4/350/P-4(5), N10/350/P-5-4) were evaluated c...
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Research Article10.9734/ajahr/2019/v3i430006
This study compared organic and chemical fertilizers on qualitative yield and essence content of peppermint. The experiment was carried out as Randomized Complete Design in Agricultural Farm Center, Sari, Iran, in 2013. The treatments were as control, vermicompost, composed sheep...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530146
We are interested by studying the influence of two drying methods: in the shade and solar energy, on phytochemical composition. For this, we choose the rhizomes of the plant Equisetopsida Asterales, a species that can be found in the poor soil of Provence and Corsica. It prefers...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i330133
Aim: A study was conducted to evaluate supplementary effects of oil palm bunch ash (OPBA) and poultry manure (PM) on the growth and yield performance of mungbeans. Study Design: The study used a 3 x 3 factorial experiment laid out in randomized complete block design with three r...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i330078
The study was designed to evaluate the dry matter yield and quality of two temperate (T. Pratense and T. repens) and two tropical forage legumes (S. guianensis and C.molle) harvested at early-flowering stage for hay in a cool tropical environment of Vom, Jos, Plateau State, Niger...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v9i330002
This study evaluated the effects of fertilizer on growth, yield and the nutritive value of three varieties of huckleberry (“White stem”, “Bamenda” and “Foumbot”). The treatments were NPK (20:10:10) at levels 0, 100, 150, 200Kg/ha and 10 Mg/ha poultry manure and the experiment was...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2019/v3i130028
Phosphorus is one macronutrient that commonly gets fixed and accumulates into soils after it has been in use for long, thus becoming readily unavailable to plants in subsequent years. Such scenario is ontological in Mwea where rice farming is practiced, yet this element is one ma...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i130042
Most of the tomato varieties in Bangladesh are of inbred type and produced low yield indicating need to develop high yielding variety through the hybridization. Heterosis breeding is used to improve yield and quality of tomato because traditional methods cannot be used to achieve...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2019/v2i330044
The aim of this study was to investigate the morpho-physiological and yield response of maize (Zea mays L.) variety as influenced by different plant density in Bali Nyonga, North West Region of Cameroon. The fives treatments (intra-row spacing) were: Treatment 1 (T1 = 15 cm ≈ 952...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v27i130063
Aim: Field experiment was conducted to study the productivity of sweet corn as influenced by planting geometry and fertilizer levels. Study Design: Split-plot design with three replications and nine treatment combinations. Place and Duration of Study: Plot number ‘125’ ‘E’ block...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v33i530093