Increased fertilizer use is often an essential component of sustainable intensification for improved food security and economic growth in the upper elevation tropical savanna (UTS) lower (LTS) Africa. The UTS LTS are large “breadbasket” areas with little due to financial other constraints. Farmers’ perceptions high profit opportunity low risk major drivers adoption. Representative crop nutrient...

The seeds of parasitic plants of the genera Striga and Orobanche will only germinate after induction by a chemical signal exuded from the roots of their host. Up to now, several of these germination stimulants have been isolated and identified in the root exudates of a series of host plants of both Orobanche and Striga spp. In most cases, the compounds were shown to be isoprenoid and belong to ...

Total mixed rations containing conventional forage sorghum, brown midrib (bmr)-6 forage sorghum, bmr-18 forage sorghum, or corn silage were fed to Holstein dairy cows to determine the effect on lactation, ruminal fermentation, and total tract nutrient digestion. Sixteen multiparous cows (4 ruminally fistulated; 124 d in milk) were assigned to 1 of 4 diets in a replicated Latin square design wit...

The study investigates consumers’ preference for cowpea reflected in the Nigerian markets through price discounts and premiums that consumers pay for different cowpea characteristics. The price data used for this study were obtained through a market survey. A common data collection protocol was employed. Every month, between October 2009 to December 2010, five cowpea samples per seller were bou...

Behavioural responses of S. oryzae to odours/volatiles from sorghum, red gram, chick pea, black gram, green gram, fried gram and lentil were compared in Y-tube olfactometer bioassay. Results indicated that sorghum populations were more attracted towards sorghum followed by split pulses. Whereas pulses populations were more attracted towards red gram followed by green gram, chick pea, black gram...

Attempts were made to explore the potential of hybrid sorghum (Variety CSH-9) to prepare starch by wet milling process. Starch yield from sorghum found to be 72.5 percent. The starch so prepared was further utilized for the production of carboxymethyl starch (CMS) derivative. The reaction conditions during chemical modification of sorghum starch such as reaction time and monochloroacetic (MCA) ...

Nitrogen (N) availability under no-till intercropping systems has not been widely investigated in diverse agro-ecological regions Limpopo Province. Two seasons of rainfed experiments were conducted during 2018/19 and 2020/21 a 2 × 4 factorial design to measure the biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) ability cowpea an system with four grain sorghum cultivars at two test locations, Ofcolaco Syferk...

Background: Seed quality, an important determinant of germination and vigor potential, can be improved through seed priming. This study was therefore aimed at assessing the effects steeping duration inoculum concentration on seedling growth five crops priming with growth-promoting rhizobacteria. Methods: Broth cultures bacterial strains, belonging to Providencia vermicola (2 strains), P. rettge...