The current study was aimed to inventory and document the flora of Tutti Island (the study area) During a field survey conducted between August 2016 to December 2018. A total of 155 species belong to 120 genera and 41 families were inventoried. A number of 135 species were Dicoty...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i430139
Few studies on effects of termites on litter decomposition have been done in African savannahs, particularly in the Adamawa savannahs of Cameroon. In the framework of management of resource quality to restore or improve soil fertility of farming systems of Sudano-guinea savannahs...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i430138
Little information on allometric relationships for estimating stand biomass in the savannah of Cameroon was available. Allometric relationships for estimating stand biomass were investigated in the sudano-guinea savannah of Ngaoundere, Cameroon. A total of 90 individual woody fro...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i430137
The present study aims to evaluate the use of chicken feather waste (CFW) as an absorbent for the removal of crude oil from crude oil polluted water (CPW) in comparison with commercial activated carbon (CAC) ) in Nigeria. Oil pollution, can be as a result of natural disaster like...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i330136
River Ngadda is one of the main sources of water used by the resident of Maiduguri Metropolis The proximity of the people to the river encourages a lot of irrigation farming along the river bank during the dry season especially vegetables therefore, concentration values of heavy...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i330135
Assessment of metal pollutants bioaccumulation in amaranthus vegetables cultivated along the bank of river Ngadda and Alau dam was carried out with the aim of establishing the health risk associated with their consumption. Samples of amaranthus vegetables were analyzed for metal...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i330133
Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is the most important oilseed crop in Ethiopia. It is basically grown during the summer season in different regions of the country and produced mainly in the northern and northwestern lowlands of Ethiopia. The production of sesame is low because of ins...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i330134
Worldwide, tomato leaf miner Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is one of the most devastating invasive pests of tomato crops. It is one of the most important biotic constraints for tomato production which may lead to the production loss up to 100% if it cannot be controlle...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i330132
The study is aimed to assess live weight and some morphometric traits to serve as the basis for documentation and utilization in improvement programme of the locally-adapted ducks. This study observed five phenotypic characteristics and assessed live weight, and seven morphometri...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i230131
The study explored the relationship between key socio-demographic and economic variables on climate change adaptation strategies of rural farmers in Oyo State, Nigeria. Three hundred (300) rural farmers were randomly selected from six (6) farming communities for the study. Multip...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i230130
Traditional management practice is emerging as one of the strategies to rehabilitate and restore degraded soils. In this study the important roles of area enclosure with comparison to an open sites were investigated for physicochemical properties of soil in rangeland of Shilabo d...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i230129
Aims: A field survey was carried to apprehend the full diversity of Ivorian’s plantain. The aim was to produce a reliable and up-to-date production map of the local varieties. This study was also intended to determine their level of appreciation by local consumers on the basis of...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i230128
Field experiments to study the performance of maize varieties (Zea mays L.) under different rates of nitrogen fertilizer and cow dung in Mubi, Adamawa State, Nigeria were conducted in 2014 and 2015 cropping seasons at the Food and Agricultural Organization/Tree Crops Plantation (...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i230127
The aim of this study has investigated the degradation of diazinox 5% and five different concentration of diazinon (diazinon 95%, diazinon 15%, diazole 50%, diazit 60% and octadat 60%) before and after storage at 54 +2°C for 0, 7, 14 days. Besides, the effects of storage on the f...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i130125
The conversion of natural ecosystems to agriculture is recognized as the current major cause of biodiversity loss. Given large expanses of land that is under agriculture worldwide, this study, carried out in 2013, aimed to examine the contribution of mango orchards to the restora...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2020/v21i130124