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A study was conducted to determine the influence of grazing management system on the foraging behaviour of steers in semiarid area of Zimbabwe. Foraging behaviour was determined through direct observations of focal animals. Four draught steers were observed in either the grazing scheme or under the traditional grazing management over

Organic acids can be replaced as effective feed additives with antibiotics. Organic acids and their salts have the potential to retard the development of pathogens in the diets and thus maintain the microbial equilibrium in the gastrointestinal tract. In this study, 225 day-old broiler chicks were used for a period

A preliminary study of the host parasite relationship between Tapinanthus bangwensis and its host, Irvingia gabonensis was carried out to gain an understanding of the impact and outcome of their co-habitation on the host plant. Assessment of the physiological interaction was conducted via a study of some of the physiognomy

The aim of this study is to evaluate genetic potential in chicken breeds raised in Vietnam. They include local chicken breeds (Noi and Tau Vang giving good health and meat quality traits but they are not intensively studied yet) and a commercial breed (Cobb 500 giving high growth performance and

The emergence of the free market economies globally, has resulted in the development of a new spirit of enterprise and the increased farmer’s need for more responsibility in running their farm business. Multistage random sampling technique was used to select a total of 120 respondents used for the study. Primary

Efforts to recycle and capture the ocean of green house gases emitted from the huge amount of crop removed from the earth surface and from the indiscriminate application of N fertilizers in agriculture, are of serious consideration to soil and environmental scientist world over. In the light of this, a

Early and late crops of flint, pop and sweet maize (Zea mays L.) were sown in field plots laid in randomized complete block design at the Teaching and Research Farm in 2004. Stem borer infestation and damage were assessed both in the plots treated with 1.5 kg carbofuran/ha and in

The effect of different concentrations of rubber crumb collected from the vicinity of rubber factories situated in S.I.T.E area Karachi was studied on the seedling growth of Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb) Benth., Adenanthera pavonina L. and Pisum sativum L. under natural environmental conditions. All the treatments exhibited inhibition of most of

In this study, 74 villages were selected and a total of 279 samples were taken from those villages according to the progressive sampling system. Regarding the seed size and color of the materials, 400 genotypes were grouped. These genotypes were sown in Samsun. Description of the genotypes was performed according

The potential of African Catfish to bioaccumulation of some selected heavy metals was done by introducing heavy metals into the fish water after the fish was starved for 24hr; the test was done by semistic bioassays method. The results were analysed with AAS and it was observed that different metals

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