The study focused on the analysis of production and marketing constraints of tomato among rural farmers in Talensi Nabdam district of Upper East Region of Ghana.A total of 100 respondents were interviewed using questionnaire. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics to describe the socio economic characteristics of the farmers and Kendall’s Coefficient of Concordance was used to rank the ...

A Distributed Musical Rehearsal is one of the most demanding telepresence applications, in terms of video and audio quality and transmission latency. In the frame of the EU ACTS project Distributed Video Production (DVP) we developed an ATM based environment for the organization of Distributed Musical Rehearsals. In this paper we describe the technical specifications of the installations requir...

Smallholder participation in agricultural markets in Mozambique has been historically very low. The majority of rural smallholders are subsistenceoriented, devote the majority of their labor and assets to agricultural activities and rely on crop production for over two thirds of their total household income. Household survey results indicate that the poorest 40% of smallholders sell very little...

This volume brings together many contributions and aspects of functional-structural plant modelling. These last pages draw attention to three significant questions that may emerge while reading this book: (i) to what extent do these models address plant functions? (ii) what is the (future) role of these models in plant sciences? and (iii) how can the use of these models be enhanced? These quest...

The backbone of modern technologies is the creation tolerant genotypes at ECB with special emphasis on interaction between degree plant damage and metabolic processes as potential responses to stress. During vegetation period 2016 2018, variability response four maize effectiveness insecticides bioinsecticides interdependence dynamics population were examined. Out a total 11,023 attacked plants...

Plant essential oils (EOs) and their active compounds are recognized as sustainable tools for the management of arthropod pests. The bitter orange, Citrus aurantium L. (Rutaceae), is a widespread tree in Mediterranean region that used especially rootstock other Citrus. Although most this plant’s parts accredited with medicinal properties, its fruits not consumable generally considered non-value...

OBJECTIVE Evaluating the larvicidal activity of two ether factions from Asteraceae (the aster, daisy or sunflower family, i.e. Heli opsisoppositifolia (L.) Druce (oxeye, sunflower-like) and Jaegeria hirta (Lag.) Less (weed-like)) on Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (L.) final third instar or initial fourth instar larvae near the town of Armenia in the Quindío Department in Colombia. METHODS H. oppos...