Wafaa Mohmed, A. H. Mohana, H. El-Sharkawy, H. Al-shannaf
{"title":"FIELD EVALUATION OF SOME INSECTICIDES AGAINST Spodoptera littoralis AND INSECT PREDATOR Coccinella spp. IN COTTON FIELDS","authors":"Wafaa Mohmed, A. H. Mohana, H. El-Sharkawy, H. Al-shannaf","doi":"10.21608/jpd.2019.82001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpd.2019.82001","url":null,"abstract":"The Egyptian cotton leafworm is considered the major pest that causes great damage to cotton plants as well as other vegetable crops in Egypt. This study was planned to evaluate the efficacy of emamectin benzoate, indoxacarb and lufenuron compounds against the cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis and its natural predator Coccinella spp. during the two successive seasons of 2017 and 2018. The obtained results indicated that lufenuron compound was the most against the cotton leafworm followed by emamectin benzoate during the two experimental seasons; while the indoxacarb was the lowest toxic on Coccinella spp. Conclusively, it could be recommended to use lufenuron and indoxacarb insecticides to control the cotton leafworm in cotton fields with relatively low effect on natural predator.","PeriodicalId":184675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Productivity and Development","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116615414","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":"ENHANCING QUALITY ATTRIBUTES OF GUAVA FRUITS DURING COLD STORAGE BY USING EDIBLE COMPOSITE COATING (CHITOSAN) AND CALCIUM NITRATE","authors":"A. A. El-Rahman, O. Zagzog, N. El-Naggar, M. Gad","doi":"10.21608/jpd.2019.72491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpd.2019.72491","url":null,"abstract":"The current investigation was carried out during 2015 and 2016 seasons on El-mamoura guava fruits (Psidium guajava L.) to study the effect of calcium nitrate and chitosan coating treatments on the physico-chemical characteristics of the fruits during cold storage period. All treatments prevented fruit decay compared with control which lost 26.14 % (average of the two seasons) of its fruits. \u0000Guava fruits didn’t lost any weight during the first two weeks of cold storage in both seasons and after 43 days the least weight loss percentages were for the treatments of Calc. Nit. 4% + Chitosan 0.5% in the first season and Calc. Nit. 2% + Chitosan 1% in the second season. The above treatment of Calc. Nit. 2% + Chitosan 1% had the highest significant average of V.C and gave the highest firmness values in both seasons and its fruits had the highest citric acid content in the last interval of the first season. All treatments maintained the TSS content in guava fruits during cold storage period and the treatment of Calc. Nit. 4% + Chitosan 0.5% had the highest significant average value in both seasons. \u0000Conclusively, it is recommending treatment with 0.5% chitosan as a coating and calcium nitrate 5 % to guava fruit cv. ELmamoura to improving fruit quality for cold storage a long time.","PeriodicalId":184675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Productivity and Development","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125728836","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 MINERAL, ORGANIC AND BIO – FERTILIZERS ON GROWTH OF ZAGHLOUL DATE PALM","authors":"A. Aly, O. Zagzog","doi":"10.21608/jpd.2019.71650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpd.2019.71650","url":null,"abstract":"This study was conducted to investigate the response of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera, L.) cv Zaghloul, to nine different fertilizer treatments i.e. Control (1.5 N), full nitrogen (N) dose (100%) as mineral fertilizer (recommended rate), quarter organic fertilizers + 3/4 mineral, half-N dose as organic fertilizers + half as mineral, full N dose as organic fertilizer, quarter organic fertilizers + 3/4 mineral + bio-fertilizers (EM). half-N dose as organic fertilizers + half as mineral+ bio-fertilizers, full N dose as organic fertilizer+ bio-fertilizers and bio-fertilizers. The experimental design was complete randomize block design with three replicates under El Adlia, Blbas, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt during two successive years (2017 and 2018). \u0000The results showed that full N dose as organic fertilizer+ bio-fertilizers gave the highest leaf number/palm, leaf length and leaf area index. Applied the full N dose as organic fertilizer+ bio-fertilizers gave the highest number of leaflets/leaf and leaflet length whereas; addition bio-fertilizers only produced the highest value of leaflet width. Also, our results clear that added half N dose as organic fertilizers + half as mineral enhanced the leaf chlorophyll content, but the addition full N dose as organic fertilizer+ bio-fertilizers increased carotenoids content. \u0000Conclusively, from previous results, it can concluded that organic and bio-fertilizers enhancement all vegetative growth parameters of Zaghloul date palm cv. To reduce dates pollution, prefer replacement mineral fertilizer by organic and bio-fertilizers.","PeriodicalId":184675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Productivity and Development","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133745469","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":"EVALUATION OF SOME HORTICULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ALLICIN CONTENT FOR SOME GARLIC GENOTYPES","authors":"Saied Ahmed, M. Samy, A. Ezzat","doi":"10.21608/jpd.2019.81998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpd.2019.81998","url":null,"abstract":"A field experiment was carried out during the two successive winter seasons of 2017/2018 and 2018/ 2019 at the Farm of Sids Hort. Res. Station, Agric. Res. Center, Beni–Suief Governorate, Egypt, to evaluate of some five garlic genotypes, namely Egyptian (Balady) and Sids-50 (soft neck garlic white), Sids-40, Eggaseed-1 and Eggeseed-2 (hard neck garlic purple) on some vegetative growth, bulb characteristics and productivity as well as Allicin content in cloves during fresh and cured yield . The results showed the uppermost plant height, maximum leaves number per plant and longest leaf, highest total plant fresh weight/ plant, bulb diameter, both fresh and cured yield / fed. were obtained by Sids-50 genotype in both seasons. Meanwhile, Eggaseed-2 cultivar gave the largest leaf width and bulbing ratio. However, Balday cultivar recorded the highest number of cloves/ bulb in both seasons. The relative increases in cured yield due to Sids -50 genotype were about (6.15 and 22.58 %) over Baldy cultivar , (30.18 and 31.03 %) over Sids-40, (15.0 and 24.59 %) over Eggaseed-1 and ( 68.29 and 80.95 % ) over Eggaseed-1 in the 1st and 2nd seasons, respectively. The maximum concentrations of Allicin content in fresh and cured cloves of garlic were recorded with the two cultivars Eggaseed-2 and Sids-40, while the minimum concentrations were recorded with Sids- 50 genotype and Baldy cultivar in both growing seasons. Conclusively: It could be concluded that the highest garlic growth, yield and its components can be achieved from Sids-50 garlic cultivar followed by cv. Balady, and Eggaseed-1 (purple). In order to obtain the highest Allicin content it is recommended to cultivate Sids-40 or Eggaseed-2.","PeriodicalId":184675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Productivity and Development","volume":"340 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133639756","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":"FORTIFICATION OF STIRRED YOGHURT WITH SOME MICROELEMENTS USING NATURAL SOURCES TO IMPROVE ITS NUTRITIONAL VALUE.","authors":"M. El-Hawary, M. Moussa, D. Amer, S. Samir","doi":"10.21608/jpd.2019.81087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpd.2019.81087","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this research is to fortificate the stirred yoghurt with some microelements and natural antioxidants to improve its nutritional value. The control was stirred yoghurt made from buffalo milk. Stirred yoghurt fortified with 5% oat and some fruits (mango, banana and strawberry jam) were prepared and their physicochemical, chemical and microbiolagical properties and some microelements (Si, Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu) content of resultants products were investigated. The data revealed that addition of oat flour slightly increase in pH value but these values were decreased with the addition of fruits. Also the lower in protein contents cause lower in fat while the higher in fat, fiber and carbohydrate contents were higher than control. Mineral analyses of Si, Mn, and Fe contents were great difference between all treatments as they ranged between (28.7136.51) for Si, (4.61-5.26) for Mn, (3.51-4.11) for Fe and (3.31-3.61) ppm for Zn. Concerning the control, the values obtained were (14.71), (0.91), (0.71), (3.61) for Si, Mn, Fe and Zn respectively. The sensory evaluation showed that addition of fruits improved the total acceptability. Conclusively, oat flour can be used as a good natural source in fortified yoghurt with micronutrients to produce yoghurt with high nutritional and functional value.","PeriodicalId":184675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Productivity and Development","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129914737","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}
O. Zagzog, Bahaa El Bana, S. Mehana, ElSaied Qauod
{"title":"IMPROVEMENTS OF YIELD AND FRUIT QUALITY OF ZAGHLOOL DATE PALM BY USING THE DIFFERENT THINNING TREATMENTS","authors":"O. Zagzog, Bahaa El Bana, S. Mehana, ElSaied Qauod","doi":"10.21608/jpd.2019.71654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpd.2019.71654","url":null,"abstract":"Different hand thinning treatments were conducted on Zaghloul date palm cultivar to study their effects on bunch yield and fruit quality. Seven thinning treatments; (1) control (no thinning), (2) Thinning by removing 25% the bunches number/ palm in Hababouk stage, (3) Thinning by removing 25% the strands number/ palm in Hababouk stage (4) Thinning by removing 25% of strands length per bunch in Hababouk stage, (5) Thinning by removing 25% the bunches number/ palm in Kemri stage, (6) Thinning by removing 25 the strands number/ palm in kemri stage, (7) Thinning by removing 25% of strands length per bunch in kemri stage, at a private farm under the conditions of the Ismailia Governorate, Egypt. Fruit thinning significantly decreased yield per palm. Fruit thinning by treatments (2,5) significantly increased the bunch/weight, however the other thinning treatments decreased the bunch weight. Fruit thinning significantly increased the average fruit weight, fruit size, flesh weight, flesh thick, fruit dimensions, seed weight and color index as compared to the control in both seasons. Fruit thinning had significant effect on the total soluble solids, fruit acidity, vitamin C, reducing sugars, non-reducing sugars, total sugars and total soluble tannins in both seasons. Thinning by removing 25% of strands length bunch in Hababouk stage significantly improved fruit quality compared with the other treatments. Conclusively, it is concerning mentioned that the thinning treatments occurred in Hababouk stage gave good results than in kemri stage.","PeriodicalId":184675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Productivity and Development","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132355013","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}
Sahar Desouky, F. E. Desouky, A. Amer, Mohamed Rabiee
{"title":"ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS AFFECTING MILK CONSUMPTION IN THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT(In Arabic)","authors":"Sahar Desouky, F. E. Desouky, A. Amer, Mohamed Rabiee","doi":"10.21608/jpd.2019.71663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpd.2019.71663","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Productivity and Development","volume":"209 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133579232","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":"EVALUATES THE POSSIBLE RISK OF POLLEN GRAINS CONTAMINATION BY PESTICIDE RESIDUES AND THEIR AFFECTS ON HONEY BEE SURVIVAL","authors":"E. El-Hady, H. El-Sharkawy, R. Sanad","doi":"10.21608/jpd.2019.81094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpd.2019.81094","url":null,"abstract":"Some studies have suggested that extensive use of insecticides might be a factor in the increased rates of honey bee colonies loss during the dormant period. There for we conducted this study in five villages in Sharkia governorate, Egypt during 2017. The obtained results revealed that the remarkable differences in residue levels between sites depending on the agricultural intensity were found. We found different pesticides in all observation sites. We found many samples under any detectable contamination and the few positive samples only with low concentrations of pesticides. Thiamethoxam at El-Nakhas and Ezbet Issa and imidacloprid at Plant protection Institute, Belbeis and El-Mahmodia record a higher PHQ more than 1000 corresponds to consuming more than 1% of the median lethal dose (LD50) per day and therefore represent the toxicity of substances to honey. Conclusively, from these results it could be concluded that risks by ingestion of contaminated pollen and honey are of some concern for systemic insecticides, particularly imidacloprid and thiamethoxam, chlorpyrifos and the mixtures of cyhalothrin and ergosterol inhibiting fungicides. However, residues of neonicotinoid insecticides pose the highest risk by contact exposure of bees with contaminated pollen.","PeriodicalId":184675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Productivity and Development","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129407945","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}
S. El-Sayyad, H. El-Sharkawy, Fathy El-Santeel, R. Sanad
{"title":"EFFICACY OF SOME WINTERING METHODS ON THE ACTIVITY OF HONEYBEE COLONIES (Apis mellifera L.)","authors":"S. El-Sayyad, H. El-Sharkawy, Fathy El-Santeel, R. Sanad","doi":"10.21608/jpd.2019.81085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpd.2019.81085","url":null,"abstract":"This work was carried out to study the efficacy of thermal insulation methods during fall on brood rearing activity of F1 Carniolan and F1 Italian hybrid colonies. The experiments were conducted at a private apiary in Hehia district, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt. Results showed that the highest measured total sealed brood area was recorded for the thermo-insulated colonies with foam for F1 Carniolan and F1 Italian both hybrids colonies, recording 1334.8 and 1441.4 inch 2 /colony, respectively. On the contrary, control colonies received no insulation measure reared the least total sealed brood area, recording 998.8 and 1074.2 inch 2 /colony brood rearing activity of the two hybrids was the highest starting on November 1 st regardless of the insulation material. Thereafter this activity suffered gradual decrease till mid winter before it started to increase again. Italian hybrid colonies showed higher brood rearing activity during fall more than Carniolan hybrid colonies. Conclusively, from previous results, thermal insulation by foam is the best type of thermal insulation for bee sects under study.","PeriodicalId":184675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Productivity and Development","volume":"169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122146058","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 SILICON LEVELS AND METHODS OF APPLICATION ON VEGETATIVE GROWTH AND FLOWERING OF ZINNIA (Zinnia elegans L.)","authors":"M. Gayed","doi":"10.21608/jpd.2019.82006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpd.2019.82006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Productivity and Development","volume":"123 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129891403","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}