Safe food production is a holistic way of agriculture, which tries to bridge the widening gap between man and nature. The present study was to determine the attitude of farmers towards safe food production, to explore the relationship between selected characteristics of the farme...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/40213
Viral diseases are known to be one of the major limiting aspects in tomato production in different countries. Almost 75 viruses are known to infect this crop and adversely affecting the yield annually. Combined attack of more than one viruses become more dangerous and show very d...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/40818
A field experiment was carried out during the cropping seasons of 2014 and 2015 at the Teaching and Research Farm of the University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria. The experiment sought to determine the influence of intercropping maize and sweet...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/40425
An experiment was conducted at the Laboratory of the Horticulture Department of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology between January and March, 2012 within temperature and humidity ranges of 18–32°C and 63–85%, respectively. The purpose of the investigation was to d...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/40496
Md. Kamal Hosain, Sk. Md. Mobarak Hossain, Zoynal Abedin, Md. Mukul Islam, Md. Atiar Rahman, Md. Shazadur Rahman & Md. Abu Zafor·Asian Research Journal of Agriculture·2018
Aims: To determine the effect of seed treatment and foliar spray of fungicide on rhizome rot of ginger. Study Design: The study was laid out in a randomized complete block design with three replications. Place and Duration of Study: The experiment was conducted at the plant patho...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/40356
Two field experiments were carried out during two successive winter seasons of 2013/14 and 2014/15 at the experimental farm, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Bahkt ALruda, Ed Duiem, Sudan. The aim of this study was to evaluate four tomato varieties per...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/40554
The objective of this research was to identify the reasons prompting the adoption of organic fertilizers in vegetable production and also to establish the factors that discourage organic fertilizer usage in vegetable production. Data from 50 purposively selected farmers based in...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/34874
The experiment was conducted to evaluate the yield performance of five new hybrid combinations of tomato (DCH1, DCH2, DCH3, TCH1 and TCH2) along with BARI Hybrid Tomato-4 at the experimental field of Horticulture Department, Sylhet Agricultural University in Randomized Complete B...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/39479
This study intended to determine factors affecting the adoption of new technologies in rainfed paddy production practiced by smallholder farmers in the Central District-Zanzibar, Tanzania. A cross-sectional research design was employed. A structured questionnaire, focus group dis...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/39172
A field experiment was conducted in summer to evaluate the response of wheat to different potassium fertilizer rates on Cambisols of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. The experiments were laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design replicated three times with 4 levels of potassium (0,...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/38742