Maize (Zea mays L.) is the most important cereal crop for most countries in the sub-Saharan Africa. Nitrogen (N) deficiency and aluminium (Al) toxicity are among the abiotic stresses leading to low maize productivity. Lack of N and Al toxicity in soil entails, in most cases, appl...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/42979
This study was conducted in the field to evaluate the effect of onion yellow dwarf virus (OYDV) on growth and yield of onion seed crop of two local onion genotypes (var. "Saggai" and Shendi"). It evaluated the possibility of alleviating the disease expression through the use of p...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/42182
The study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of aqueous 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) on postharvest quality of carrots and to compare with/to gaseous 1-MCP and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) treatments. Carrots initially washed with tap water were distributed into 4 batches the...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/42595
The study was conducted to examine the involvement of youth in poultry production in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State. A total of one hundred and twenty five respondents were randomly selected for the study. Data were collected with the use of questionnaire and analysed usi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/41689
Mealybugs are considered as the most important insect pests of fruits, vegetables and cotton in Swaziland. However, lack of sound identification and information on the mealybug species attacking these crops in the country represents a major barrier to establish satisfactory pest...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/41759
This study was aimed to investigate the effect of graded levels of slaughterhouse residue (SHR) on performance and haematological parameters of broiler chickens over the period of 35 days. One hundred day-old chicks were fed diets containing SHR at 0 (control), 5, 10 and 15% diet...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/41409
Grafting practice has been common agricultural application in fruit-bearing vegetables in several countries. Since scion can be grafted on rootstock seedling with or without root in Cucurbitaceous crops, rooting capabilities of rootstocks during healing processes has critical imp...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/41653
A field experiment was conducted during kharif 2016 at College of Agriculture, Hassan, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru to evaluate different pre and post emergent herbicides on growth and yield of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) the soil of experimental site is red s...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/41762
A study was conducted to investigate the distribution and gene frequency of some qualitative traits of indigenous chickens of Bekwarra, Southern, Nigeria. One thousand and sixty adult scavenging chickens were sampled from 208 rural households. Data obtained were subjected to chi-...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/41389
The present review article proposed sericulture as a viable, sustainable development plan for Nigeria and as a path to diversifying the Nigerian economy away from an oil-based economy to that which is more balanced and stable. The paper identified poverty alleviation as the forem...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/41849