Cheese whey is the main by-products generated by the cheese industry. It is acidic and rich in organic matter and nutrients which makes it ideal candidate to use as soil amendment. Incubation experiment was conducted to assess the potential of using cheese whey to increase soil f...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39082
Aims: The area of sub-Mediterranean Herzegovina, including the area of Mostar, is favourable for growing of almonds. However, this advantage has not been sufficiently exploited so far. A wide selection of almond varieties is available, so it is a challenge to select the best vari...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39091
Field experiments were conducted from 2015 to 2016 during wet seasons at the Teaching and Research of the Leventist Farm, Tumu, Akko local Government area, Gombe State, to evaluate the effects of incorporated legumes, NPK 20-10-10 and their Combinations on yield and yield attribu...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38185
The present investigation entitled “Effect of Phospho compost and Nitrophospho-Sulpho compost on soil chemical and biological properties under soybean in Vertisols" was conducted at Research farm, Dr. PDKV, Akola during Kharif 2016. The experiment was laid in Randomised Complete...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38648
Well structured questionnaires and rating schedule were utilized to establish the economic relevance of each member of each species for each growth form. Available growth forms have very low economic relevance except probably the ones man knowingly planted for their high Economic...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/36870
Two field studies were conducted at the Multipurpose Crop Nursery research field of the University of Education, Winneba, Mampong-Ashanti in the Forest-Savannatransitionzone of Ghana from September-December, 2009 and April-July, 2010, respectively to determine the effects of vari...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38795
Soil is the most complex of all microbial habitats. Tropical soils have high levels of biodiversity and microorganisms that display fascinating mechanisms for interaction and biotransformation, thus regulating the mobility of chemical compounds in the environment. This paper will...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39052
The experiment was conducted at College of Horticulture, Mudigere to study the effect of fertigation on quality and biochemical parameters of strawberry fruits. The experiment consists of eight treatments, each treatment was replicated four times in Completely Randomized Design....
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38507
Seeds of three roselle accessions (HS11, HS89 and HS41) were obtained from the Department of Horticulture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana and grown to obtain the calyces. The calyces were dried by sun (34.9°C), solar (56.5°C) and oven (60.0°C) m...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38550
A field experiment was conducted at All India Coordinated Research Project on Soybean, Main Agricultural Research Station, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India to study the integrated nutrient management practices on red leaf index, insect pest and disea...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38888