A research was conducted to evaluate cassava production by women farmers in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. One hundred and twenty smallholder female cassava farmers were selected using multi-stage sampling. Data were collected from the respondents using questionnaire and interview schedule. Then descriptive statistics (mean, frequency and percentage) were used in ...

background ochratoxin a (ota) is a toxic secondary metabolite produced by fungi belonging to aspergillus and penicillium genera. the production of ota is influenced by environmental conditions and nutritional requirements. the postharvest application of bunches of table grape fruit (tgf), with water activity of 0.8 aw, was highly effective for controlling ota contamination in vitro and in vivo ...

A combinatorial auction is an auction where the bidders have the choice to bid on bundles of items. The WDP in combinatorial auctions is the problem of finding winning bids that maximize the auctioneer’s revenue under the constraint that each item can be allocated to at most one bidder. The WDP is known as an NP-hard problem with practical applications like electronic commerce, production manag...