The aim of the study was to evaluate popular ALVs in two counties; i.e. Kiambu and Kirinyaga counties in Kenya. Focus group discussion (FGD) and a field survey were employed. The study was carried out in the two counties in Central Kenya between January and February; 2015. Purp...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/28734
T. V. Kiran, P. Vijayalakshmi, Y. V. Rao, K. N. Swamy, R. Kondamudi, B. Srikanth, I. Subhakar Rao, M. Suchandranath Babu, V. Jaldhani, D. Prema Latha, C. N. Neeraja, K. Surekha, P. R. Rao, D. Subrahmanyam, L. V. Subbarao & S. R. Voleti·Asian Research Journal of Agriculture·2016
Nitrogen is one of the important elements for rice production. Nitrogen utilization was rapidly increased from the time of green revolution, which resulted in environmental hazards. Increasing rice yield with optimized usage of fertilizers has become important for sustainable agr...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/28503
The objectives of this investigation were to identify secondary trait(s) for selection of high maize grain yield under drought stress conditions and to identify whether the best selection environment is the optimum or stressed one. Diallel crosses among diverse inbreds in toleran...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/28552
Philippines is the world’s largest producer of abaca fiber, accounting for about 85% share of the global production in 2013. Plant tissue culture technology is being widely used for a large scale plant multiplication. Even though it is possible to produce a large number of plants...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/28353
The objective of the present investigation was to test the validity of predictions of GCA and SCA effects from mean performance and/or heterobeltiosis for agronomic and yield traits under elevated plant density (D) combined with water deficit. Six maize inbreds varying in high-D...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/28126
The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizae (VAM) and Trichoderma harzianum against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubenseTR4 on ‘Cavendish’ banana plantlets and to determine the growth performance of ‘Cavendish’ banana plantlets applied with Ves...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/28386
Aim: To determine the effects of extraction technology and geographical location on the quality of shea butter. Study Design: Data for physico-chemical characteristics were entered into Micro soft Excel spread sheet and summarized into mean and standard deviations. Analysis of Va...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/27513
The study was an expo-facto research type that adopted cross sectional survey approach to explore the extension service programming needs as preconditions towards strategic improvement of women involvement in agro-preneurial organizations in Akwa Ibom State. Specifically, the soc...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/27256
The use of high plant density (PD) along with tolerant genotypes to high PD would overcome the negative impacts of competition stresses and lead to maximizing maize yield of grain (GYPH), protein (PYPH), oil (OYPH) and starch (SYPH) from the unit land area (ha). The main objectiv...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/26730
Annona muricata and Annona senegalensis powders were evaluated for their insecticidal potency against adult Callosobruchus maculatus. Toxicity test was conducted by contact bioassay at different concentrations of the treatment plants viz: 0.0 g, 0.5 g, 1.0 g, 2.0 g and 3.0 g was...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2016/26505