A field experiment was carried out at Agriculture Farm, Palli Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal, India during kharif season of 2015 to compare rice cultivation in conventional transplanting (CT) and system of rice intensification (SRI) in terms of energy use,...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i630121
Aims: To estimate the impact, connection and association among the biometric attributes, pulping qualities and anatomical characters in Bambusa balcooa. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted across the agro climatic regions viz., North Eastern Zone, Northern Zone,...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i630120
Water samples from effluents discharge points were analyzed for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) concentration using chromatographic techniques. The result obtained showed the presence of all the PAHs categories in the water samples. The total concentrations of PAHs in the...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i630119
The study was conducted in Afikpo South Local Government covering a total area of 331.5km2. Remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) were integrated with multicriteria analysis to delineate the flood vulnerable areas. Seven criteria were considered; rainfall, runoff...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i630118
Global Climate Models (GCMs) are currently the most powerful tools for accessing changes in the hydrological regime at the watershed scale due to climate change and variability. GCMs, however, have limitations due to their coarse spatial and temporal resolutions. Regional Climat...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i530117
This paper is an assessment of aerosols impact on solar potential available in Burkina Faso in 2017. Three measurement stations were selected from the North to the South according to the climatic zones, with sites at Dori (14.035°N, 0.034°W) in the North, Ouagadougou (12.20°N, 1....
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i530116
Aims: This study sought to evaluate the adoption of water resource management strategies in hotels in an attempt to attain water sustainability. Specifically, the research sought to assess the current structural and non-structural water resource management strategies adopted by s...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i530115
The study was conducted to provide information on students Willingness to Pay (WTP) for social services provided by tree species on the campus of the Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi (FUAM), Benue State, Nigeria. Random sampling technique was used to select 200 students...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i530114
Time series and empirical orthogonal transformation analysis was carried out for four (4) selected tropical sites, which are situated across the four different climatic zones, viz. Sahelian, Midland, Guinea savannah and Coastal region in Nigeria using measured monthly average dai...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i530113
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) integrated with the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) was adopted to estimate the rate of annual soil loss in Afikpo South Local Government. This is important due to the fact that agriculture is the main source of...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i430112
In this area of agricultural transformation by the government of Nigeria, every opportunity in order to achieve food security should not be ignored. Most studies on soil characteristics had centered on the suitability of the soil for agricultural production and it is observed t...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i430111
For hydrological studies, it is well known that each hydrological system behaves differently and in order to effectively manage those systems, it is necessary to understand their behavior. The hydrological component of Hydrological Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF) model was se...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i430109
Changes in season is one of the important drivers responsible for pollutants transported into surface waters. This study examined the seasonal variations in the quality of Imabolo stream water within Ankpa urban, Kogi State, Nigeria. To achieve the aim of the study, water samples...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i430110
Fisheries and allied sectors provide means of livelihood to millions of people around the world. In India more than 14.5 million individuals depend on fisheries for their livelihood, with Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Kerala being the main three marine fish producing states of the coun...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i430108
Aims: The aims of the current paper is to provide a comparative analysis of the water ecosystem in the state of Jammu & Kashmir in India and to highlight economic potentiality of the two nerve tributaries; “Dal Lake” and “River Jhelum” to the farmers and other communities of...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i330107