In Ethiopia, barley selection has focused on grain yield traits. Limited information is available straw and its nutritive value. The aim of this study was to screen cultivars for value using forty food malt types at two locations in Ethiopia (Bekoji Kofele) 2018. Food-fodder quality traits investigated were crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fibre (NDF) metabolizable energy (ME) straw. Locat...

with the increasing world population and limitations on arable land, increasing the yield per unit is one of alternatives human food supply. greenhouse cultivation as one ways of increase the performance can arrive this purpose. but the energy restriction of another human challenges, so that increase the performance without considering energy consumption almost appears to be meaningless. due to...

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of pregrazing pasture herbage mass (HM) on CH4 emissions, ruminal fermentation, and ADG of grazing beef heifers at 2 stages of the grazing season. Thirty Limousin cross heifers were allocated to 1 of 2 target pregrazing HM treatments [a low HM (LHM) or high HM (HHM) treatment] for 126 d in a randomized block design experiment. Pasture herb...

Sweet sorghum is a popular grain crop grown in water stress prone areas in the world. Its sole stand leaves ample resources untapped. This study evaluated the feasibility of intercropping sweet sorghum using eight intercropping patterns composed of 2 x 2 x 2 factorial combinations of two legumes (viz. mung bean and soybean), two row patterns [viz. alternate single row (ASR) and double row (ADR)...

The water footprint (WF) of a product refers to freshwater consumed during production (1). We calculated bioenergy WFs assuming crop water requirements are met (2); Jongschaap et al. (3) correctly point out that this is not always true, giving an example for jatropha grown under poor, rainfed conditions in South Africa. Yields are generally expressed in ton/ha, but, when water is scarcer than l...

Rice-based cropping systems (RBCS) are a kingpin of global food security and rice fallow is one the largest (>14 m ha) RBCS. A three-year study was carried out to develop sustainable intensification options efficient nutrient management protocols RBCS with greater water energy productivity more profits. Rice-lentil, rice-linseed rice-rapeseed were tested in split-plot design practices involv...

The Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) survey is a long-term project aimed at finding and analyzing star-forming galaxies detected by their Ha emission in Schmidt objective-prism plates. The instrumental setup limits the volume of the universe surveyed to a redshift z = 0.045. So far we have discovered several hundred emission-line galaxies (ELGs) undergoing star formation at a wide range ...

sustainable development of the production in every region requires consideration of energy flow in the production system, moreover, investigating the production system inputs from environmental management point of view is of high importance. in this study energy use and greenhouse gas emissions is investigated. data were collected through interviews with 75 tea farmers and comparing the results...

Tumors in female Swiss Millerton mouse skin were initiated with 25 pg 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene and, 2 weeks later, were promoted 3 times/week with 0.2 ml of 0.5% croton oil. Four steroid hormones in 0.2 ml of acetone were applied percutaneously at 6 and 30 jug 5 times/week. A fifth steroid was applied at the 30-^g dose. Tumor inhibition by the hormones was dose dependent in the order dexa...