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The Agricultural Transformation Agenda is all about enhancing capacity for agricultural commodity value chains leading to industrialization and employment creation, food security, infrastructure investments, private sector leadership, supportive fiscal policies and accessible market information systems to the farmers. Poor funding and absence of a well-defined agricultural extension policy among others

A field experiment was conducted at Werer Agricultural Research Center, Afar region, Ethiopia, to determine the best insecticide rotation sequence and use of compatible mixtures in the Insecticide Resistance Management strategy for cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii. Randomized Complete Block design having eight treatment combinations and four replications were used. The

A field experiment was carried out at Nigeria institute for Oil Palm Research date palm Research substation Dutse, Jigawa state during 2004-2005 flowering season. Biparental progenies derived from 60 crosses replicated twice were subjected to analysis of variance using nested design for the purpose of estimating additives, genetic and dominance

Date palm progress derived from 60 crosses replicated twice, subjected to analysis of variance using nested design for the purpose of estimating fulsibs, broad sense and narrow sense heritability’s, genetic advance and genetic advance as percentage mean for the eight fruit traits. Positive estimates were recorded for fulsibs heritability for

The study was on economic analysis of fish farming in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. It determined the factors affecting fish farming, estimated gross margin of fish farms and examined the costs and returns relationship of fish farming in the study area. The study utilized a two stage sampling technique

The study sought to compare pastoral and agro-pastoral based livelihoods for socio-economic factors of the farming systems associated with the shift from pastoralism to agro-pastoralism among the Maasai community in Trans-Mara West district of Kenya. The shift from pastoral to agro-pastoral farming system is on-going among the Maasai community in

The continued improvement in the yield of cowpea for the semi-arid regions where it is a dominant crop will record rapid progress if the genetic basis for yield under different moisture regimes is better understood. This study investigated the genetic combining abilities and heterosis for grain yield, yield components, flowering

Investigations on embryos and seeds are very difficult, owing to the fact that orchid seeds are very small, dusty, and transparent. Therefore, this study looked at how to prepare the isolation technique for orchid seeds and how to isolate orchid embryos from seeds. The seeds of Barlia robertiana (Orchidaceae) were

Fungi involved in the biodegradation of maize- cob were isolated and screened for cellulase activity using glucose and carboxylmethyl cellulose as carbon sources. The effect of the carbon sources on cellulase production was determined. Eleven fungi species were isolated which include Rhizopus oryzae, Aspergillus flavus,. Mucor racemosus, Aspergillus niger, Penicillium

Locally available inert materials including sawdust, coffee husk and wood ash were evaluated at different proportions against Sitophilus zeamais and Sitotrog cerealella in 2002 in Awassa National Maize Project entomology loboratory. The experiment was laid out incompletely Randomized design (CRD) in three replications. The insect pests were reared at laboratory

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