The studies were conducted in NAPRI to assess two varieties of groundnut for forage and seed yield characteristics and the effect of feeding the haulms to Yankasa rams. The first experiment was on-farm which was conducted at Shika, and its neighbouring villages, to determine the effect of variety on pod, haulm, seed yields and shelling per cent. Te... Continue Reading
Land use and soil management practices, affect soil physical quality indicators. Ten plots from the long-term DNPK trial field of Samaru were selected and soils analyzed to assess the hydrological and physico-chemical properties after a long period of cultivation and fallow. The plots were subjected to different fertilization regime from 1950 to 19... Continue Reading
Forty-eight (48) Yankasa rams with average weight 21.67ÂÂ�1.6kg were used to study the effects of ensiling eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) forage on nutrient digestibility, intake, anti-nutritional factors, mineral content, nitrogen balance and haematological parameters in rams. The rams were randomly assigned to eight treatments, with six rams p... Continue Reading
Forty-eight (48) Yankasa rams with average weight 21.67ÂÂ�1.6kg were used to study the effects of ensiling eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) forage on nutrient digestibility, intake, anti-nutritional factors, mineral content, nitrogen balance and haematological parameters in rams. The rams were randomly assigned to eight treatments, with six rams p... Continue Reading
The genetics of drought tolerance in maize was studied using seven drought susceptible maize inbred lines as female parents and six drought tolerant maize inbred lines as male parents, which were mated in a North Carolina Design II fashion. The resultant 42 F1 hybrids, 13 parents and a check were evaluated at Samaru and Kadawa under non-stress, in... Continue Reading
Laboratory and screenhouse experiments were conducted to isolate and characterize rhizobia from soils collected from the northern Guinea, southern Guinea and Sudan savannas of Nigeria and to assess response of promiscuous soybean, TGx1448-2E to inoculation in the same soils. Bulk top soils were collected from 45 sites spread in 15 local government... Continue Reading
Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of dietary inclusion level (50% or 100%), form (whole or ground), and enzyme supplementation (with or without) of pearl millet at the expense of maize on the performance of Japanese quails. In the first experiment (growing phase), 378 two weeks old unsexed Japanese quails were used in a 2 x 2 x... Continue Reading
The study was undertaken to compare and evaluate growth performance, conformation and morphological traits of three commercial strains of broiler chicken. A total of 315 day old chicks of three broiler strains (105 from each strain) consisting of NAPRI-X, Marshall and Ross strains, respectively were used in this experiment. Computed indices compris... Continue Reading
This study was undertaken to produce and quantify anthocyanins in Karadanfi red sorghum in vitro. Mature embryo and immature embryo explants were used for callus induction using Murashige and Skoog basal medium supplemented with varying concentrations of 2, 4-D (0 mg/L – 4.0 mg/L) alone or in combination with 0.5 mg/L KN. Continue Reading
Forty nine cotton genotypes were evaluated at Samaru, Northern Guinea Savanna Zone of Nigeria during 2013 cropping season. The experimental design used was 7Ã�”7 lattice design with three replications. Plant data recorded on twelve characters were subjected to analysis of variance, Principal component analysis, Cluster analysis, Rank summation in... Continue Reading
Chilli pepper (Capsicum frutescens) is one of the major cash crops grown in Nigeria. This study seeks to determine the resource use efficiency and profitability in chilli pepper production and its contribution to household income in Kaduna state. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were adopted in sampling the respondents. Descriptive ... Continue Reading
This study is focused on the analysis of women empowerment in cassava production and processing as a means of household poverty status in Kwara State, Nigeria. Women in Kwara State were empowered by RTEP inorder to improve their living standard and there was therefore the need to evaluate the impact of the programme on the women‟s income, pro... Continue Reading
The main objective of the study examined farming households‟ risk attitudes and their management strategies toward risk. While the specific objectives identified the major sources of risks to agricultural production in the study area, determined household‟s perceived magnitude of these risks and risk attitude of rural households, determ... Continue Reading
An investigation was carried out with Fifty (Arachis hypogaea L.) genotypes to assess the genetic diversity for yield and yield related traits. i.e. plant height, canopy spread, number of branches, number of pods per plant, pod yield shelling percentage etc. The experiment was conducted at the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) research Far... Continue Reading
The efficacy, acceptability and utilization of groundnut haulms (GH) and cowpea husks (CH) as feed resources for Red Sokoto does (RSD) were investigated. The experiment, in a randomized complete block design involved growth and digestibility trials using twenty pregnant RSD in their last trimester and twelve Red Sokoto bucks (RSB) for the respecti... Continue Reading