The eighteenth century Atlantic world can be understood as a world of entangled spaces. It constituted a web of places where different cultural geographies overlapped, of entrance points for cultural transfers and interconnected networks for information and the flow of commodities. Different ethnic and religious communities and material cultures were simultaneously present in the same localitie...

tillage and press wheel weight play an important role in seedling emergence, crop establishment and growth. an optimal combination of tillage implements and suitable press wheel weights should increase grain yield. this study investigated the effect of tillage systems and press wheel weights on dry land wheat (triticum aestivum l.) seedling emergence and grain yields in izeh, khuzestan province...

Smallholders in Asia and Africa require low-cost seed drills for minimal soil disturbance while establishing various crops. A seed drill that can be drawn by the widely-available two-wheel tractor (2WT) is an attractive option for mechanization of no-till in small-sized fields. The Versatile Strip Seed Drill (VSSD) was designed with the capacity to make up to 40 mm wide and 60 mm deep strips in...

Grain amaranth, a pseudo-cereal with a rich history as a source of food in Meso America, is an attractive alternative crop suitable to be produced in semi-arid conditions. Grain amaranth production in the United States was 1,800 ha in 1991 (Stallknecht and Schulz-Schaeffer 1991). Most amaranth production is located in the Great Plains, especially in Western Nebraska (Williams and Brenner 1995),...

The socio-economic development of largely subsistence-oriented rural areas is a prominent policy objective in Laos. Whereas in the surrounds of major urban centres and regions with favourable infrastructure and market access a dynamic industrial and service sector have emerged, most of the countryside remains economically undeveloped. Cultivation of commercial tree species is acknowledged as a ...

Mr. BC, 25 year old farmer from Sarlahi district, Hindu by religion, was admitted in medical ward of Kathmandu Medical College & Teaching Hospital on 2060/05/31 with the chief complaints of generalised weakness of whole body, easy fatigability, difficulty in speaking, drooping of both the eyelids for the past 9 months. All his symptoms used to be worse on exertion especially in the evening hour...

J A? IAI(’A, the largest of the British West Indian islands, was originally inhahitated by primitive Amerindians know’n as Arawaks, who dwindled to insignificatit numbers during the one hutidred and sixty-one years of Spanish rule which follow-ed the discovery of the Island in 1494. During the 17th atid 18th centuries, the British and Spanish planters, w-ho had originally settled Jamaica, impor...

The ability of peanut plants to adjust to wide plant-toplant spacing and the use of more precise mechanical planters have not been thoroughly exploited to reduce seeding rates. The magnitude of plant growth adjustment of two runner peanut cultivars to reduced seeding rate was studied in 1992 and 1993. A precision vacuum planter was used to plant the cultivars GK-7 and Southern Runner (SR) in si...

A 32 years female presented with sequential weakness of left half, followed by right half of body during last two and half months without any remission. she had muscle spasms, urinary retention and constipation for same duration. she had periorbital pain but no visual or hearing problem. she had no preceeding respiratory infection or vaccination. she had two abortions. she could not talk proper...