Field experiment was conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm of the University of Port Harcourt in 2012 to evaluate the response of Golden Torch (Heliconia (psittacorum × spathocircinata) and weeds to Primextra-Gold ® (Atrazine 370 g/l + Metolachlor 290 g/LSC and Gardoprim A®...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/30527
The study ascertained productivity and gender/ intra-household roles in rice production in Awka North Local Government Area, Anambra State, Nigeria. Ninety farmers selected from three and nine town and village communities respectively constituted the respondents for the study. Da...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/30824
Inadequate information on the status of agricultural lands can lead to misuse, mismanagement and degradation. Hence, the need for proper assessment methods for effective land management and sustainable production. This study was set out to characterize, conduct suitability evalua...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31943
Seeds of five cotton genotypes viz., CB-8, BC-0236, SR-08, BC-0125 and BC-0252 were assessed to observe the effect of packing materials on physiological quality of cotton seed stored under ambient condition. The packaging materials were hermetically sealed polythene bag (thicknes...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31204
Aim: An experiment was conducted to analyze the canopy characters and light-use efficiency along with yield of five modern wheat varieties viz. BARI wheat-23, BARI wheat-24, BARI wheat-25, BARI wheat-26, and BARI wheat-27. Study Design: The experiment was laid-out following a Ran...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31744
Nitrogen (N) is an essential macro nutrient for plant growth and development. Plants absorb nitrogen in either ammonium (NH4+) or nitrate (NO3-) forms, which influence plant growth and absorption of nutrients in higher plants. The aim of the study was to determine the influence o...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/30907
The last decade in Nigeria saw useful scientific contributions in biomonitoring different environmental matrices and understanding their health indices, however with scanty toxicological evidences, especially their oxidative stress response and oxygen affinity. The present study...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31568
How plant species are distributed in a given ecosystem is important for ecologists and conservationists because tropical forests are very diverse. This makes the question of what determines species commonness and rarity more interesting. This paper aims to assess the environmenta...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/30953
Scarcity of fodder is the major limiting factor for increasing livestock production in Kenya. With rising energy costs and declining water levels in the semi-arid tropics and sub-tropics, crops that use less water like finger millet could become an alternate fodder crop. The fodd...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31120
The orchid species, Neottia cordata and Goodyera repens found in large parts of Europe and North America, but rarely found in the Netherlands. Hence, the Forestry Services of Netherlands is working to preserve these endangered orchid species by maintaining the current forest stru...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/30488