Resultados de búsqueda - "Nigeria"

The breeding of White Fulani cattle at Shika, Nigeria por Foster, W.H.

“…Reviews breeding work carried out over the period 1929-58 in the herd of White Fulani cattle kept at Shika government research station in Northern Nigeria. Topical discussions on the effects of various environmental factors on milk production in the herd; influence of breeding practices on genetic gain of animals, taking into account the environmental variation; and variation in birth weight and weight of heifer at two years included. …”
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Review of hairy sheep studies in southwestern Nigeria por Ademosun, A.A., Benyi, K., Chiboka, O., Munyabuntu, C.M.

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Blood parasites of village goats in southwest Nigeria por Opasina, B.A.

“…Blood screening over 12 months in 4 groups of villages in southwest Nigeria revealed the prevalence of Trypanosoma vivax (3.5%) and Babesia motasi (20.4%). …”
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Small ruminant productivity and nutrition in southern Nigeria por Reynolds, L., Adeoye, S.A.O.

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Viruses in weeds in Dioscorea yam fields in Nigeria por Asala, S., Alegbejo, M.D., Kashina, B.D., Banwo, O.O., Shinngu, C.P.

“…Therefore, leaf samples of weeds were collected from Dioscorea yam fields in FCT-Abuja, and five States of the Guinea Savanna agro-ecological zone of Nigeria in 2009 and 2010, and analysed by Enzyme-Linked Immuno-absorbance Assay (ELISA) and Polymerase Chain Reaction for viruses. …”
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Effects of policies on yam production and consumption in Nigeria por Adesiyan, O.F., Adesiyan, A.T., Bamire, A., Ousmane, C., Asiedu, Robert

“…This study analyzed the effects of policy changes on yam production and consumption in Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 700 respondents for the study. …”
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Health of farmersaved maize seed in northeast Nigeria por Biemond, P.C., Oguntade, O., Stomph, T., Kumar, P. Lava, Termorshuizen, A.J., Struik, Paul C.

“…The objective of this research was to test seed quality of maize seed from the informal SS in north-east Nigeria. A total of 46,500 seeds (93 samples of 500 seeds each) were tested for germination, off-types and seed health. …”
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Market integration for selected vegetables in southwestern Nigeria por Adeoye, I., Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M., Amao, I., Fajimi, F.

“…Moench] in South-western Nigeria. Data on monthly prices from 2004 to 2009 was collected from the Oyo State, Nigeria, Agricultural Development Project. …”
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Promoting the use of drought tolerant maize in Nigeria por Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Anyebe, O.

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Advances in seed yam propagation methods in Nigeria por Ikeorgu, J.G., Mazza, M.A., Okonkwo, C., Kikuno, H.

“…Scarcity and/or high cost of healthy seed yams are the greatest constraints in yam production in Nigeria and probably across the West African Yam belt. …”
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The cassava monitoring survey in Nigeria: final report por Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal, Girma Tessema, G., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Rabbi, Ismail Y., Olanrewaju, A.S., Bentley, J., Alene, A., Feleke, S., Kulakow, Peter A., Asumugha, G.N., Abass, A., Tokula, M., Manyong, Victor M.

“…The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) cofunded the Cassava Monitoring Survey (CMS) project with the objective of documenting the extent of adoption of improved cassava varieties with a rigorous sampling and DNA based identification of improved varieties in Nigeria. For examining the determinants of adoption, the project undertook the following four major tasks: (i) Large-scale household (HH) survey (2500 households from the states responsible for 80% of cassava production in Nigeria), (ii) DNAbased varietal identification using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), (iii) GPS-assisted area measurement and (iv) gender-differentiated end-user surveys on varietal and trait preferences. …”
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Building Agricultural Resilience through Insurance in Nigeria por Hellin, Jonathan, Hansen, James, Araba, Debisi

“…Nigeria can build a robust resilience framework to ensure that its agricultural sector is able to cope with the shocks and stresses of climate change through weather insurance. …”
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Agricultural investment for grow and poverty reduction in Nigeria por Alpuerto, V., Diao, X., Salau, S., Nwafor, M.

“…This study assesses public investment required for agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Nigeria. Using time series data for public spending and agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, the econometrically estimated results show that one percent of growth in agricultural spending generates 0.24 percent of growth in agricultural TFP. …”
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Options for Agricultural Growth for Poverty Reduction in Nigeria por Diao, X., Nwafor, M., Alpuerto, V.

“…This study analyzes growth options in agricultural sub-sectors to accelerate overall economic growth and reduce poverty in Nigeria in the next nine years (2009-17) using an economy-wide, dynamic computable general equilibrium (DCGE) model. …”
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Socioeconomic studies on selected cassava markets in Nigeria por Ezedinma, C.I., Sanni, Lateef O., Okechukwu, R.U.

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Growing maize commercially in Nigeria: an illustrated guide por Ibikunle, O., Adekunle, A., Fatunbi, A.O.

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Preemptive management of Cassava Mosaic Disease in Nigeria por International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

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Guide to rice production in Borno State, Nigeria por Ekeleme, F., Kamara, A., Omoigui, L.O., Tegbaru, A., Mshelia, J., Onyibe, J.

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Determinants of market production of cooking banana in Nigeria por Tshiunza, M., Lemchi, J., Tenkouano, A.

“…The factors that influence farmers' decisions to produce cooking banana for market in southeast Nigeria were examined. Data were collected from a random sample of 217 farmers through the use of a structured questionnaire. …”
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Phenotypic and genetic correlations in Musa populations in Nigeria por Tenkouano, A., Ortíz, R., Baiyeri, K.

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