Sugar is an important commodity in the African context, and there are numerous challenges and opportunities that exist in Africa for that industry. Africa is quite a big place and it encompasses a large number of different countries, cultures, weather patterns and soil variety. I will restrict my presentation to the area which is know as the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which ...

Fiji’s agricultural sector, and within it, the sugar industry, has been the driving force behind the country’s development. The sugar industry, however, is facing a number of challenges of which production efficiency is one of them. This paper examines farm productivity, efficiency and profitability in the industry. It suggests that without improving farm level efficiency and productivity the i...

The role of morpho-physiological attributes along with the antioxidant potential Stipagrostis plumosa L. populations collected from arid regions in adaptability to aridity was evaluated. Root shoot length, chlorophyll, carotenoids, and organic osmolytes (total free amino acids, total soluble proteins, glycinebetaine, proline) increased more activities enzymes (APX, CAT, POD, SOD). fresh:dry wei...

Lentil (Lens culinaris, Medik.), an accessible low-cost high-quality protein form for many people, is a salt-sensitive legume, which already at electrical conductivity (EC) of 3 dS/m (~30 mM NaCl) has yield loss about 90% compared to other crops. Identifying salinity-tolerant lentil germplasm nowadays primary importance ensuring the production superfood and sustainability industry. In this stud...

Abstract Aims The survival and ecological distribution of plants in arid habitats are mainly conditioned by water availability physiological adaptations to withstand drought. In the present study, we have compared responses drought two Retama raetam (retama) subspecies from Tunisia, one them living under desert climate (subsp. raetam) other growing on coast bovei). Methods To physiologically ch...

Coastal Bermuda grass (CBG) has been shown to have potential as a biomass feedstock for sugar production. In this study, the effectiveness of ozone pretreatment for CBG to improve the sugar recovery via enzyme hydrolysis was investigated. Raw CBG and autohydrolysistreated CBG were pretreated with ozone at ozone consumption of 1.8 to 26.4 % (w/w) at room temperature. Lignin degradation and hemic...