The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of varying NPK 15;15:15 levels on the forage yield and quality of Brachiaria ruziziensis and performance of Yankasa rams fed different ration of the forage and Concentrate in a total mixed ratioin the Northern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria. The experiment was laid in a randomized complete block design (RCB... Continue Reading
An experiment was conducted using a total of one hundred and ten indigenous chickens of three genotypes and their crosses, comprising of thirty from each genotype and twenty from the indigenous breeds’ crosses with NAPRIx. The experiment was to determine the susceptibility or otherwise of the various genotypes and their crosses to Newcastle ... Continue Reading
Livestock sector plays a tangible role in the Nigerian economy, even though, it is still far from attaining self sufficiency. Thus government instituted a series of macroeconomic policies designed to improve the production of this sector. Continue Reading
Drought stress is one of the major constraints in groundnut producing areas of Sub-Sahara Africa as its yield is reduced by 56-85%. Mitigating this constraint requires the selection of resilient genotypes that withstand drought threats to groundnut production. The objectives of this study were to identify drought tolerant genotypes to be used for g... Continue Reading
The objective of the present study was to determine genetic variability for some agronomic traits and iron toxicity, determine mode of gene action associated with tolerance to iron toxicity and the degree of association between iron toxicity, yield and yield components in rice Continue Reading
The study on the genetic studies for grain yield and other agronomic traits under water non-stressed and water stressed conditions in cowpea was carried out using five parental lines comprising three drought resistant (IT98K-628, IT99K-7-21-2-2, SAMPEA-10) and two drought susceptible genotypes (SAMPEA-8, BIU LOCAL) which were crossed to develop F1s... Continue Reading
Groundnut improvement, through conventional method of breeding may not be able to create desired variability on which a robust breeding programme could be built. Also, groundnut as a self- pollinating crop naturally would have less variability in its gene pool. Continue Reading
This study had the objectives of determining the fertility and calving ease of small holder indigenous cattle herds inseminated with imported semen from proven sires, as well as to determine the effects of non genetic factors, and sire and dam breed on birth weight and growth rate of the crossbred calves. The results showed that the mean age, parit... Continue Reading