The main focus of the study is on economic analysis of irrigated rice production in Kura local government area of Kano State, Nigeria. The Research was carried out in 10 selected villages in Kura local government area. The 10 villages were selected from the 26 villages in the local government and 10% of the farmers in each of the selected 10 villag... Continue Reading
The main focus of the study is on economic analysis of irrigated rice production in Kura local government area of Kano State, Nigeria. The Research was carried out in 10 selected villages in Kura local government area. The 10 villages were selected from the 26 villages in the local government and 10% of the farmers in each of the selected 10 villag... Continue Reading
The main focus of the study is on economic analysis of irrigated rice production in Kura local government area of Kano State, Nigeria. The Research was carried out in 10 selected villages in Kura local government area. The 10 villages were selected from the 26 villages in the local government and 10% of the farmers in each of the selected 10 villag... Continue Reading
The main focus of the study is on economic analysis of irrigated rice production in Kura local government area of Kano State, Nigeria. The Research was carried out in 10 selected villages in Kura local government area. The 10 villages were selected from the 26 villages in the local government and 10% of the farmers in each of the selected 10 villag... Continue Reading
Vitamin A is a group of fat-soluble vitamins essential for life and health. It plays vital role in vision, epithelial tissue protection, bone and brain development, and immune system functions. ÎÂ�-carotene (ÎÂ�C), ÎÂ�-cryptoxanthin (ÎÂ�CX) and ÎÂ�-carotene (ÎÂ�C) are vitamin A precursors found in plants and are referred to as provitamin A (P... Continue Reading
Data on 102 progeny of New Zealand White (NZ), Chinchilla (CH) and Dutch (DU) breeds of rabbits and their crossbreds obtained from birth to 14 weeks were used for this study. Genotype and feeding regime were the factors of interest. The genotypes were New Zealand White x New Zealand White (NZxNZ), ChinchillaÃ�”Chinchilla (CHxCH), DutchÃ�”Dutch ... Continue Reading
Despite the high level of production of sorghum in Nigeria its threshing and cleaning operation remains among the major challenges to farmers especially in the northern part of the country. Efficient sorghum threshers are not available to Nigerian farmers. The prototype thresher developed at Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) was associated ... Continue Reading
Low soil nitrogen is a major constraint to maize production in the West African savanna. The development of maize cultivars with better performance under low soil nitrogen level is of great significance. In this study, S1 (Selfed) progeny recurrent selection method was employed to improve three different maize populations (DMR ESR-W, TZE COMP. 3DT ... 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
This study was conducted to compare three strains (Arbor Acre, Marshal and Ross) of broiler chickens using growth traits, biochemical profile and mathematical models (Gompertz, Logistics and Simple linear regressions) with the view of identifying the best strain and the most suitable model for fitting growth curve in broilers. A total of 225 birds ... Continue Reading
The study was carried out to examine the effect of agricultural transformation on the beneficiary‟s productivity and poverty in Kano state Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling method was employed to select 571 respondents for the study. The first stage involves the random selection of two rice growing local government areas out of the three local ... Continue Reading
Groundnut production is largely constrained by biotic stresses with groundnut rosette virus disease seriously contributing to losses in yield in Nigeria and sub Saharan Africa and thus the need to study the mode of inheritance of aphid and rosette resistance in groundnut with these objectives; to investigate the gene action controlling the inherit... Continue Reading
This study analysed the adoption of recommended agrochemical practices (RAPs) among crop farmers in Kaduna and Ondo States of Nigeria. A total of 260 crop farmers who had sustained the use of agrochemicals for at least five years were selected for the study by using a multi-stage sampling technique. Continue Reading
This study was carried out to investigate the adoption of improved rice production technologies by members and non-members of Rice Farmers Associations in Kaduna and Kano States. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 266 respondents comprising of 133 members and 133 non-members from both States while semi-structured questionnaire was ... Continue Reading
Field experiments were conducted at the Institute for Agricultural Research (I. A. R.), Samaru, Zaria (Latitude 11Ëš11' N and Longitude 7Ëš38' E), Nigeria for two years period (2009 and 2012) to study the population dynamics of Agonoscelis versicolor F. on sunflower. Continue Reading