• Effective termite management strategies should involve at least one of the following: • Provision of adequate food to deter termites from attacking crops. • Enhancing multiplication and proliferation of natural enemies (e.g. nematodes, fungus, bacteria, virus, ants, frogs, beet...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/44842
The combined effect of pawpaw leaf meal (PLM) and poultry droppings meal (PDM) as protein sources in snail feed on the performance of Archachatina marginata (Giant African Land Snail) snail was investigated in the Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Federal Polytechnic I...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/43922
The experiment was conducted in the Central Farm, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka from November 2015 to February 2016 with the aim of investigating the growth and yield attributes of cauliflower as influenced by different micronutrients and plant spacing. The experim...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/44192
Mukundpur forest range is situated in Amarpatan Tahsil in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh India. The species of 58 trees, 28 shrubs, 08 lianas, 20 herbs and 19 grasses (total 133) had been found by using vegetation sampling. By evaluating IVI (Important Value Index) for the spec...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/44194
Forty-four (44) samples of clams were obtained from three locations between Cross River and Akwa Ibom States. Genomic DNA was extracted from tissues of the clams using cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). Following DNA extraction from the tissues, ultraviolet radiation spectro...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/42951
The present study aims to contribute to a better sociocultural knowledge of Hibiscus cannabinus through an inventory of the local knowledge and the identification of interest characters for farmers. Seventy-two (72) accessions were collected from fifty-six (56) villages distribut...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/43903
The Mesopotamian Espinal has been recently modified in several areas of Entre Ríos province (Argentina) due to the advance of the agricultural frontier, producing an important reduction in forest area. Inappropriate forest management had early transformed the native and primary f...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/44114
A field experiment was conducted, at the Central Laboratory for Agricultural Climate-Dokki, Giza, during two seasons (2014 and 2015), to study the effect of three Planting dates (February 15th, March 15th, and April 15th) and four organic fertilizers (Cattle manure, compost, rabb...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/38255
This study examined the volumes of timber species traded and their market structure in Benue State. Applying a multistage sampling technique at 30% sampling intensity, seven (7) LGAs were sampled from the 23 LGAs of the state for the study. Thus, 164, 79 and 13 respondents from t...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/35201
Since the past two decades, watershed management practices such as construction of stone bunds and establishment of exclosures have been widely implemented in the semi-arid low and highlands of northern Ethiopia to curb land degradation by soil erosion. The aim of this study was...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2018/39723