In a laboratory study aimed at determining the effect on nutrient composition of sorghum beer residue (SBR) supplemented with urea and methionine and passed through a 2nd fermentation process. Four (4) levels of urea (0.5,1.0,1.5 and 2.0%) and four (4) levels of methionine (0.29, 0.33, 0.37, and 0.41%)were mixed which resulted in a total of sixteen... Continue Reading
Two experiments were carried out to determine the nutritive value of sorghum, millet, cassava and sweet potato with or without enzyme supplementation in broiler chickens production. The growth performance, nutrient digestibility, heamatological parameters and characteristics of broiler chickens were evaluated. Continue Reading
A 16-week study was conducted to evaluate the effect of biostimulation on behaviour, growth, and reproduction of rabbits. Seventy five (crossbreds) mature rabbits (2.6 -2.70 kg), comprising of 50 nulliparous does aged, 6-7 months old and 25 bucks, (8-10 months old), were used for this study. The rabbits were allocated into five treatment groups in ... Continue Reading
This study analyzed the efficiency of groundnut farmer‘s in the adoption of IAR developed groundnut varieties for poverty alleviation in north western Nigeria. Primary data were obtained through the use of well-structured questionnaires from a sample size of 112 comprising of 56 adopters and 56 non-adopters of IAR groundnut varieties. The data w... Continue Reading
The soils of the Nigerian savanna are generally low in sulphur and the production of leguminous crops such as soybean is therefore dependent on adequate sulphur fertilisation. This study was carried out to evaluate the response of soybean to sulphur under greenhouse conditions and on the field. For the greenhouse study, five representative soils we... Continue Reading
Studies were carried out to investigate the mode of gene action governing the inheritance of geedcotton yield, lint yield, lint percent, mean fiber length and fiber fineness within six intervarietal crosses of Upland cotton. Polygenic inheritance for these characters was indicated by unimodality in the F2 distribution in most of the crosses for the... Continue Reading
Nigeria is a country in dire need of a quick animal protein source to meet up with the demand of its ever increasing population. Development of poultry industry has been identified as one of the quickest means of bridging this deficiency gap. The development of this industry has, however, been hindered by many problems and the broiler enterprise ha... Continue Reading
Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is one of the major crops susceptible to Aspergillus flavus infection and subsequent aflatoxin contamination which adversely affects its production and utilization in the small holder setting. Although there are several management strategies that may reduce aflatoxin contamination of groundnuts, the pre-eminent stra... Continue Reading
Lambs of Yankasa sheep were evaluated for effects of genetic and environmental factors on their body weights at birth, 3,6,9 and 12 months of age. The lambs were born between 1981 and 1985 in an on-going accelerated lambing programme at National Animal Production Research Institute (NAPRl), Nigeria, Type of birth significantly affected weights from... Continue Reading
The study was set out to estimate heterosis, combining ability, heritability, gene action and correlation of grain yield and other agronomic traits under water stress and non-water stress conditions. Seven maize varieties were crossed to six inbred lines resulting in 42 top cross hybrids. Continue Reading
Four experiments were carried out to evaluate the effect of Garlic supplementation in broiler chickens. In the first experiments 0-4 weeks, a total of 270 day old broiler chicks were used for the experiment which had six treatments and three replicates, each replicate was allotted 15 birds in a completely randomized design. Six broiler starter diet... Continue Reading
The study examined the profitability and efficiency of cowpea production in Giwa and Soba Local Government Areas of Kaduna state, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was adopted in selecting two Local Governments, and two districts from each Local Government. Primary data were collected from the total of 158 respondents through the use of a s... Continue Reading
A study was made of factors affecting flowering and fruit set in pepper plants grown from seed. The duration of the initial vegetative phase of growth was prolonged when radiant exposures were low, as in the winter or when shading was used in the summer. The change from vegetative to reproductive development was also delayed by a reduction in night... Continue Reading
The study was conducted to analyze the Commercial Agriculture Development Project on maize farmers in Kano and Kaduna States of Nigeria.Combinations of purposive and random sampling techniques were used for this study.The data for analysis was based on 2014/2015 cropping season and were collected through the use of a structured questionnaire admini... Continue Reading
Proximate composition of cooked sweet potato meal (CSPM) was determined using AOAC (1990) methods. Four experiments were conducted with two set of birds. The first two experiments were carried out to determine the optimum level of utilization of cooked sweet potato meal (CSPM) in broiler diets and the variety of preference in the second experiments... Continue Reading