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{"title":"Constraints to sustainable development of rubber industry in Nigeria: A case study of Delta State","authors":"E. Abolagba, D. Giroh","doi":"10.4314/MJAR.V7I1.31839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MJAR.V7I1.31839","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the constraints to sustainable development of the rubber industry in Nigeria. A structured questionnaire was administered to 150 farmers in four Local Government Areas in Delta state. Frequency counts and percentages were used to analyse the data collected. The findings revealed that lack of inputs, lack of credit facilities, high production cost are some of the constraints to sustainable development. The study also revealed among others the causes of the constraints, which include high lending interest rate, diversion of loan by farmers, low exchange rate of the Naira and old age of the rubber trees. On the socio­–economic characteristics of the farmers, it was discovered that the older farmers (over 49 years old) were more involved in rubber production with 79 percent accounting for a low level of education. The study concluded that provision of credit facility and availability of farm inputs are pathways to sustainable development in the rubber industry. Keywords : Constraints; sustainable; rubber; industry Moor Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 7 (1&2) 2006 pp. 42-48","PeriodicalId":129990,"journal":{"name":"Moor Journal of Agricultural Research","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124674693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing food security status among farming households in Ibadan metropolis, Oyo state, Nigeria.","authors":"B. Salahu, T. Dauda","doi":"10.4314/MJAR.V6I1.31824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MJAR.V6I1.31824","url":null,"abstract":"This study assessed the food security status of farming households in Ibadan metropolis. Some food security factors (energy and protein level, after their conversion) were cross tabulated with urban farming using eighty-nine well-structured questionnaires and through odds and odds ratio. The questionnaires, which were randomly administered using stratified random sampling technique, were distributed between both the densely and sparsely populated areas of the Ibadan metropolis. Checklists were equally used to collect some other side information as families responds to series of question. Those involved in crop production produced mostly staple crops and seasonal crops such as maize, cassava, vegetable, yam, melon while poultry production is the most common form of animal production. Also some of the respondents combined both animal and crop production together. The levels of individual families' consumption of these food items were converted. Education relative to urban farming practices was found to influence the food security status of the respondents. This is justified from the χ2 value of 9.263 and 6.443 returned for this factor and which is significant at 0.05 level of significance. Keywords : Food security; Odds; Urban farming Moor Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 6 (1&2) 2005 pp. 52-59","PeriodicalId":129990,"journal":{"name":"Moor Journal of Agricultural Research","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130199947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Potential of Toasted Lima bean ( Phaseolus lunatus L) as a substitute for full fat soyabean meal in the diets for (Oreochromis niloticus) fingerlings","authors":"W. Alegbeleye, D. Odulate, S. Obasa, F. George","doi":"10.4314/MJAR.V6I1.31830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MJAR.V6I1.31830","url":null,"abstract":"A 56-day feeding trial was conducted with Oreochromis niloticus to evaluate the effect of toasted lima bean ( Phaseolus lunatus L) meal as a partial replacement supplement for fullfat soybean meal. Five isonitrogenous (30% crude protein) diets were formulated in which full fat soybean was substituted at the rate of 10, 20, 30 and 40% with protein from roasted lima bean. A diet containing no toasted lima bean served as control. Fish fed with test diet B had significantly (p 0.05) difference among the different treatments. Fish fed test diet B (10% inclusion level) showed an overall superior growth than other experimental diets. Growth rate and nutrient utilization decreased with increase in inclusion level of toasted lima bean except the high specific growth rate (SGR) value observed in the group fed test diet D (40% inclusion level). These data indicated that up to 10% of fullfat soybean meal protein in the diets of Oreochromis niloticus fingerlings can be replaced by toasted lima beans protein. Keywords : Oreochromis niloticus ; Phaseolus lunatus ; isonitrogenous; specific growth rate; feed conversion ratio Moor Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 6 (1&2) 2005 pp. 92-98","PeriodicalId":129990,"journal":{"name":"Moor Journal of Agricultural Research","volume":"147 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120864653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Competitive ability of sicklepod ( Senna obtusifolia (L) irwin and barneby) in two-species combinations with Chrolomaena odorata (L) K & R and Euphorbia heterophylla L.","authors":"R. Awodoyin, S. Ogunyemi","doi":"10.4314/MJAR.V7I1.31845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MJAR.V7I1.31845","url":null,"abstract":"The natural fallow through which the fertility of tropical soils is restored and the weed pressure is alleviated can no longer be sustained. However, improved bush fallow using fast-growing, deep-rooting and good biomass-accumulating shrubby legumes provides a good alternative. The suitability of Senna obtusifolia in improved fallow management was investigated by studying its competitive ability relative to Chromolaena odorata (siam weed) and Euphorbia heterophylla (poinsettia weed) in replacement series studies at four total densities (29, 58, 115 and 230 plants.m -2 ) in pure stands and at three total densities (58, 115 and 230 plants.m -2 ) in equiproportion mixture. Replacement series diagrams were drawn and relative competitive ability indices (Relative Yield, RY; Relative Yield Total, RYT; Relative Replacement Rate, RRR) were determined from the plant dry weight (PDW). In the replacement series diagrams of Senna/Chromolaena combination, the curves of the PDW/pot and those of the RY were convex for the two species. The RY values were 0.64+-0.12 and 0.59+-0.05 for S. obtusifolia and C. odorata respectively. The RYT and RRR, averaged over all densities, were 1.23+-0.08 and 1.27+-0.17 respectively. However, in the Senna/Euphorbia combination, the curves were convex for S. obtusifolia and concave for E. heterophylla . The RY values were 0.81+-0.06 for S. obtusifolia and 0.23+-0.05 for E. heterophylla respectively. The RYT and RRR values for the combination were 1.05+-0.07 and 11.07+-2.40 respectively. The results indicated that though S. obtusifolia and C. odorata attained equilibrium growth with RYT significantly deviated from unity (RYT>1) when grown in mixture, S. obtusifolia exerted greater replacement pressure than C. odorata. Conversely, in the Senna/Euphorbia combination, there was a competitive relationship (RYT+-1) in which S. obtusifolia was the aggressor and E. heterophylla the subordinate species. The study showed that while S. obtusifolia exhibited obvious competitive superiority in mixture with E. heterophylla , the superiority was less obvious in mixture with C. odorata . Keywords : Competition; fallow management; helioplastic response; weed control Moor Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 7 (1&2) 2006 pp. 85-92","PeriodicalId":129990,"journal":{"name":"Moor Journal of Agricultural Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132640826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Yield potential of non-irrigated sugarcane germplasm accessions in a savanna ecology of Nigeria","authors":"G. Olaoye","doi":"10.4314/MJAR.V7I1.31843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MJAR.V7I1.31843","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of the sugarcane out-growers scheme intended to service the sugar industries in the savanna agro-ecologies of Nigeria necessitates the availability of low-moisture tolerant varieties for cultivation under strict upland condition. Data obtained from a replicated field trial involving 30 exotic and 18 local sugarcane germplasm collections at the University of Ilorin Sugar Research Institute (USRI), were used to assess their yielding potential under non- irrigated condition. The objective was to determine their suitability as parents for evolving superior but low-moisture tolerant sugarcane genotypes for cultivation in the drought-prone ecologies of the sugarcane growing area of Nigeria. Significant differences were observed for harvest stage (HS), genotype (G) and G x HS interaction for all characters measured except for number of internodes/stalk. Ranges in the means were large for almost all the characters except stalk diameter with a difference of 34.0t/ha between the highest and lowest yielding genotypes. In consonance with genetic variance (δ2g) estimates, broadsense heritability (H2B) estimates were high for kg-brix and millable cane population (0.66 & 0.61), moderate for cane yield and internode length (0.54 & 0.51) but low for sucrose in the juice and stalks/stool (0.25 & 0.12). Eight of the top ten productive genotypes with respect to cane yield, brix and kg-brix are the flowering type indicating their usefulness as parents in hybridization programme intended for developing productive varieties for low soil moisture situation. One of the check varieties (var. CO957) demonstrated yield superiority and adaptation to low soil moisture situation. The implications of these results in breeding and selection for low-moisture tolerant sugarcane varieties are discussed. Keywords : Saccharum officinarum; Cane yield; moisture stress; Brix; Kg-yield Moor Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 7 (1&2) 2006 pp. 69-75","PeriodicalId":129990,"journal":{"name":"Moor Journal of Agricultural Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114750696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of storage period and temperature on seed germination of selected Nigerian mahogany species","authors":"A. Adio, B. Oyeleye, J. Gbadebo, O. Jayeoba","doi":"10.4314/MJAR.V6I1.31821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MJAR.V6I1.31821","url":null,"abstract":"A 3 x 3 factorial experiment in a completely randomized design was employed to investigate the effects of three storage temperatures on germination of seeds of three Nigerian Mahogany species, namely: Khaya senegalensis, Khaya grandifoliola and Entandrophragma angolense, for a period 9 months, in order to determine the optimal temperature and length of time for storage of these seeds. Freshly processed seeds, sun-dried to moisture content of between 10-12% and stored at three temperature regimes of 28OC + 2OC, 5OC + 2OC and -17OC + 2OC were taken out at monthly intervals and sown. Data collected were subjected to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) P Keywords : storage period, storage temperature, seed germination. Moor Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 6 (1&2) 2005 pp. 30-35","PeriodicalId":129990,"journal":{"name":"Moor Journal of Agricultural Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133392903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of soil moisture stress on floral and pods abortion, reproductive efficiency and grain yield in soybean genotypes (Glycine max (L) Merrill)","authors":"Y. Abayomi","doi":"10.4314/MJAR.V7I1.31834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MJAR.V7I1.31834","url":null,"abstract":"Experiments were conducted at Ilorin, Nigeria to evaluate the effects of soil moisture stress at different growth stages (vegetative, flowering and pod filling) on floral and pods abortion, reproductive efficiency and grain yields of ten soybean genotypes (TGX 923-2E, TGX 1440-1E, Samsoy- 2, TGX 536 02D, TGX 1019-2E, TGX 1448-2E, TGX 1844-18E, TGX 1830-2DE, TGX 1740-2F and TGX 1817-12E). A regularly watered (control) treatment was included in all the replicates. There were significant variations (p Keywords : Floral and pod abortion; reproductive efficiency; soybean genotype; moisture stress Moor Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 7 (1&2) 2006 pp. 9-14","PeriodicalId":129990,"journal":{"name":"Moor Journal of Agricultural Research","volume":"912 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116405542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of animal manures on soil properties, growth, nutrients status and yield of tomato in Southwest Nigeria.","authors":"O. Akanni, S. Odedina, S. Ojeniyi","doi":"10.4314/MJAR.V6I1.31826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MJAR.V6I1.31826","url":null,"abstract":"A comparative field study was carried out at two sites in Akure, Southwest Nigeria to determine effect of different animal manures on soil physical and chemical properties and performance of tomato (Lycopersicm esculentus Mill). Analysis of cattle (CM), goat (GM), pig (PG) and poultry (PM) manures showed that N, K, Ca and Mg values increased in the order PM> GM> PG> CM. The GM had highest P compared with NPK (20-10-10) fertilizer applied at 100kg ha-1. Soil OM, N, P and Mg reduced in the order PM> PG> GM> CM. Compared with control and fertilizer, manures reduced soil bulk density and temperature and increased moisture content. Soil bulk density increased in the order PM Keywords : Animal manure; fertilizer; nutrient; soil properties; tomato; yield Moor Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 6 (1&2) 2005 pp. 70-75","PeriodicalId":129990,"journal":{"name":"Moor Journal of Agricultural Research","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123500155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nodulation, chlorophyll content and nitrogen yield of two woody legumes at Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria","authors":"J. Opabode, O. Akinyemiju","doi":"10.4314/MJAR.V7I1.31844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MJAR.V7I1.31844","url":null,"abstract":"Two field studies were conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria between 2000 and 2002 to compare the growth, nodulation, chlorophyll content and nitrogen accumulation of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam) de Wit cv. 28 and Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Walp cv. ILG50 at the early stages of growth (2-16 months after planting) (MAP) without inputs. A randomized complete block design with three replications and the species as treatments was used. Between 8 and 16 MAP, the biomass yield of G. sepium (5.10 kg/plant) was higher than that of L. leucocephala (1.35 kg/plant). The number of nodules produced by G. sepium (96.0/plant) was higher than in L. leucocephala (44.0/plant). Fresh weight of nodules of G. sepium (41.30 g/plant) was higher than in L. leucocephala (18.9 g/plant). Similarly, dry weight of G.sepium (18.5 g/plant) was greater than that of L.leucocephala (7.6g/plant) throughout the period of study. Nodulation index of G. sepium (5.5%) was higher than that of L. leucocephala (3.7%) at 4 and 8 MAP. At 12 and 16 MAP, leaf total chlorophyll content of G. sepium was 6.12 µM/g and significantly (P Keywords : Chloropyhll; G. sepium; L. leucocephala; nodulation index Moor Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 7 (1&2) 2006 pp. 76-84","PeriodicalId":129990,"journal":{"name":"Moor Journal of Agricultural Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123595000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Promoting the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Nigeria's agricultural extension service","authors":"T. Arokoyo","doi":"10.4314/MJAR.V7I1.31846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MJAR.V7I1.31846","url":null,"abstract":"Nigeria's Agricultural Extension Service has had a long and checkered history of development using a myriad of approaches ranging from the pre-colonial export commodity approach to the present variants of the Training and Visit (TV Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs); Radio and Television; Extension strategies/approaches; Training and Visit (T & V) extension system Moor Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 7 (1&2) 2006 pp. 100-106","PeriodicalId":129990,"journal":{"name":"Moor Journal of Agricultural Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130833486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}