Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.9734/bpi/ctas/v1/12143d
J. Medendorp, J. Payumo, Cholani Weebaddee, K. Zarka, K. Hokanson, P. Wharton, D. Douches
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Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.9734/bpi/ctas/v1/2120f
D. Okoedo-Okojie, J. I. Osabuohien
The study examined the influence of information source on farmers’ knowledge of poultry drugs in Delta State, Nigeria: Implication for rural community development. The study objectives were to ascertain the institutional characteristics of respondents, their access to information sources, awareness/knowledge of poultry drugs, and to ascertain if there is significant relationship between institutional characteristics of poultry farmers and their access to source of information on poultry drugs in the study area. A 3-stage sampling procedure was used to select respondents. The primary data used in this study were obtained from field surveyed through the use of structured questionnaire administered to 100 respondents. Data were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages, means and standard deviation and Chi-square. Higher number (67%) of the respondents have never been leader of groups, 62% of them had contact with extension agents and are members of associations respectively. Result showed that respondents have less access to information on poultry drugs usage as respondents have access only to neighbour (M=2.58) source out of the 18 sources of poultry drugs information identified in the study. Respondents are aware and have access to the use of avian charge (60%), happy hen treat (48.8%), petamine (45.0%), and tricero (32.5%) than other poultry farmers. Chi-Square results showed that all the information sources identified except campaign (0.762), exhibition (0.528), and workshop/seminar (2.607) at 1% level were significant. The study recommends that poultry drugs usage should be encouraged among farmers. Keywords: Information source, knowledge, poultry drugs, Delta State, community development
{"title":"Influence of Information Sources on Farmers’ Knowledge of Poultry Drugs in Delta State, Nigeria: Implications for Rural Community Development","authors":"D. Okoedo-Okojie, J. I. Osabuohien","doi":"10.9734/bpi/ctas/v1/2120f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/ctas/v1/2120f","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined the influence of information source on farmers’ knowledge of poultry drugs in Delta State, Nigeria: Implication for rural community development. The study objectives were to ascertain the institutional characteristics of respondents, their access to information sources, awareness/knowledge of poultry drugs, and to ascertain if there is significant relationship between institutional characteristics of poultry farmers and their access to source of information on poultry drugs in the study area. A 3-stage sampling procedure was used to select respondents. The primary data used in this study were obtained from field surveyed through the use of structured questionnaire administered to 100 respondents. Data were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages, means and standard deviation and Chi-square. Higher number (67%) of the respondents have never been leader of groups, 62% of them had contact with extension agents and are members of associations respectively. Result showed that respondents have less access to information on poultry drugs usage as respondents have access only to neighbour (M=2.58) source out of the 18 sources of poultry drugs information identified in the study. Respondents are aware and have access to the use of avian charge (60%), happy hen treat (48.8%), petamine (45.0%), and tricero (32.5%) than other poultry farmers. Chi-Square results showed that all the information sources identified except campaign (0.762), exhibition (0.528), and workshop/seminar (2.607) at 1% level were significant. The study recommends that poultry drugs usage should be encouraged among farmers. Keywords: Information source, knowledge, poultry drugs, Delta State, community development","PeriodicalId":10885,"journal":{"name":"Current Topics in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 1","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88759056","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}
Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.9734/bpi/ctas/v1/2531e
T. S. Binth, B. Hulagur, S. Goudappa, Jagrati. B. Deshmanya
Collective farming aims to bring significant changes among farmwomen through increased agricultural production and productivity. The present study was undertaken to analyse the ‘mode of functioning of different women collective farming groups’ in Palakkad district of Kerala during 2017- 2018 by the ex-post-facto research design with a sample size of 90 groups. The result revealed that the majority (67.78%) of the collective women groups were formed by the support of local self- governing bodies. The groups concentrated on location-based farming activities and the reason might be that these groups were operating at the grassroots level obliviously they got full support from the local bodies. Freedom of participation in the group process was expressed by 65.56 per cent of the participants. Three-fourth (75.56%) of respondents expressed that decision-making in groups done with consensus brings strong coherence among the members. Attendance of members in group meetings/activities was expressed by 84.44 per cent of the respondents. Further, the function of record maintenance was expressed by 92.20 per cent of the respondents which helped them to analyse and review the past activities with existing ones. There was 84.44 per cent of benefits sharing among the group members equally and the remaining 15.56 per cent of them were keeping some amount as corpus fund for the group. In nutshell, to strengthen the women collective farming groups, one must facilitate the groups to acquire strong communication process, decision making and mutual trust, transparency in benefit sharing, risk taking etc., which will help the groups to take up agriculture and allied activities in a sustained manner.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.9734/bpi/ctas/v1/13676d
A. Phonglosa, B. Dalei, S. Saren
During the kharif 2016 season, a field experiment was undertaken on farmers' fields in Sankumari village of Nabarangpur district of Odisha's Eastern Ghat High Land (EGHL) zone to analyse the impact of boron application on maize yield and economics. Maize has been grown in various seasons and places, with crop durations ranging from <90-130 days, due to its photo insensitivity. Maize being a C4 plant has higher yield potential which also depends on nutrient supplying capacity of the soil. The study used a Randomized Block Design, with four treatments replicated five times. The experimental soils were slightly acidic, non-saline loamy sands with a medium level of organic carbon and available K but low levels of available N, P, B, and Zn. The highest possible grain yieldper cob (210.21 g),100 seeds weight (38.16 g), stover yield (8.10 t ha-1), grain yield (6.52 t ha-1), total dry biomass (14.62 t ha-1), harvest index (44.59%) and B:C ratio (1.90) were recorded in Soil Test Based NPKZn @ 150:75:60:6.25 kg ha-1 + 0.5 kg B ha-1 soil application + 0.2% borax as foliar spray at 30 and 45 DAS (T4) followed by Soil Test Based NPKZn @ 150:75:60:6.25 kg ha-1 + 1.0 kg B ha-1(T3) over control (i.e. Soil Test Based NPKZn @ 150:75:60:6.25 kg ha-1+ 0 kg B ha-1). As a result, the Soil Test Based boron fertiliser application needs to be followed in soil deficient in boron under continuous maize producing areas of Odisha's EGHL zone for farmers to produce remunerative maize.
在2016年秋收季节，在奥里萨邦东高山地区纳巴朗布尔县Sankumari村的农民田间进行了一项田间试验，分析硼施用对玉米产量和经济的影响。玉米生长在不同的季节和地方，由于它对光不敏感，作物持续时间从<90-130天不等。玉米作为C4植物具有较高的产量潜力，这也取决于土壤的养分供应能力。该研究采用随机区组设计，4个治疗重复5次。试验土壤为微酸性、不含盐的壤土，有机碳和速效钾含量中等，速效氮、磷、硼和锌含量较低。最高籽粒产量(210.21 g)，百粒重(38.16 g)，秸秆产量(8.10 t ha-1)，籽粒产量(6.52 t ha-1)，总干生物量(14.62 t ha-1)，收获指数(44.59%)和B:C比值(1.90)分别记录在土壤试验NPKZn @ 150:75:60:6.25 kg ha-1+ 0.5 kg B ha-1土壤施用+ 0.2%硼砂叶面喷施(T4) 30和45 DAS (T4)，然后进行土壤试验NPKZn @ 150:75:60:6.25 kg ha-1+ 1.0 kg B ha-1(T3)对照(即土壤试验NPKZn @ 150:75:60:6.25 kg ha-1+ 0 kg B ha-1)。因此，需要在奥里萨邦EGHL区玉米连作区缺硼土壤中进行土壤试验型硼肥施用，以使农民生产有回报的玉米。
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Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.9734/bpi/ctas/v1/12113d
L. Bláha
{"title":"A Review on the Importance of World Plant Reservations for the Preservation of Crop Germplasm","authors":"L. Bláha","doi":"10.9734/bpi/ctas/v1/12113d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/ctas/v1/12113d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10885,"journal":{"name":"Current Topics in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 1","volume":"175 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82965476","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}
Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.9734/bpi/ctas/v1/12112d
L. Bláha
The root has a fundamental role in taking nutrients, water, agricultural production and stress tolerance. The trait “root: shoot” ratio is a very complex unlike some partial problems, it is a problem of plant integrity, where each species, every crop or variety represents a specific original solution. Important is analyze of root system step by step at different growth and developmental phases. More than 500 scientific papers concerning this “ratio trait” was step by step analysed, and the attempt was to extrapolate the basic general trend regarding the importance of this ratio in plant production. Given the abundance of crops, varieties and their growth phases, there is an effort to capture the basic general trend of importance and use of this trait. For these reasons, quotations are not in the text even though it is unusual unconventionally, little unscientific approach to the issue in the text. Detailed analysis of one species, crop or variety is a quite different situation. Theroot: Shoot ratio is also one of the basic veryimportant traits, which can assess the overall plant health, complex overall physiological level and health of analyzed genotypes. It is very important to analyze root: Shoot ratio changes during vegetation period in relationship with other traits of plants to obtain imagination about the influence of this ratio on metabolical processes, growth, development, etc. Growth rates of roots and shoots during vegetation period continually adjust to environmental conditions and “genetic program” of plant growth and development. For example, fertilization and irrigation can make important changes. In case of the high value of this ratio, there is with large probability a possibility to absorb more nutrients from the soil and this will help in increasing above-ground biomass and probably also increases resistance to the stresses (drought conditions, low level of nutrients in the soil).
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Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.9734/bpi/ctas/v1/13548d
Priyanka Sharma, Monisha Roy, B. Roy
Incidence of several insects, pests and diseases has created a significant impact on lower productivity and shorter productive life span of citrus trees in the entire world. In citrus, pathogens or the causal organisms in terms of bacteria, fungi, viruses, nematodes, and virus like pathogens are responsible for initiating the occurrences of several seeds, soil and air borne diseases as well as pests infested/ infected symptoms in citrus plant parts thereby leading to an economic losses to the citrus growers of the citrus belts. Exposure of plants on occurrence to high humidity and heavy rainfall from the month of May to September is more likely prone to pest infestations in addition to fungal, bacterial and viral diseases in the cultivated area. Therefore, the main objectives of this chapter were to identify the major harmful organisms to the citrus crops and to highlight the appropriate methods to manage them. In this chapter, more emphasis was given to twenty five important diseases and pests that have been identified in citrus and aids in limiting production and productivity of Citrus particularly Citrus Greening, Citrus Canker, Orange Scab, Leaf and fruit Spot, Blue mould, Phytophthora Root Rot, Sooty Mould, Citrus Wither Tip, Armillaria, Sooty Blotch, Tristeza Virus, Citrus Yellow Mosaic Virus, Grey Mould, Black Pit, Pink Disease, Powdery Mildew, Citrus, Scab, Blue Mould, Sooty Mould, Gummosis, Collar Rot, Brown Rot, Citrus Greasy Spot in addition to certain pests including Citrus Aphid, Citrus Mealy Bug, Citrus leaf miner, Fruit flies and wooly white flies respectively thereby limiting citrus production. In addition, it has also been emphasised that control of such harmful pests and diseases are entirely relied on the use of chemicals. Therefore, an alternative method of minimizing the use of chemical pesticides and insecticides is use of integrated orchard management methods in addition to use of sanitation practices and critically monitoring the occurrence and development of major pests and diseases.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.9734/bpi/ctas/v1/11583d
C. Péné, S. Ndiaye, Chantal Nguessan-Konan
Objective: Soil survey investigations were carried out in Ferke 1 as well as Ferke 2 sugar mills of northern Ivory Coast to determine soil texture and water storage capacity for sprinkler irrigation and tillage management. The sugarcane farmlands being investigated since 2008 in both locations reached 95 % of the total area under cultivation (11,400 ha). Methodology and results: Soil sampling was achieved after harvest or prior to re-plantation in 5 different spots along 2 transects over 30 cm depth, in every farmland as to get an average soil sample of 1.5-2 kg. Soil physical properties like texture and water retention curves were determined locally in the sugar company’s soil laboratory. The results showed that majority of farmland soils investigated was coarsetextured for about 64 % in Ferke 1 and 85 % in Ferke 2, with a lower to medium water storage capacity (7089 mm) over 60 cm depth which corresponds to a readily available moisture less than 60 mm. These light soils were much suitable for the practice of minimum tillage which importantly contributes to reduce sugarcane production costs. The other textural categories such as sandy-clay or clay-loam, rather well balanced and less suitable for the practice of reduced tillage without pre-watering, gave medium to high total available moisture (90-110 mm) and therefore a maximum irrigation application rate (or readily available moisture) of 60-70 mm. Except for the sugarcane plant crop, no significant difference in cane yields resulting from tillage practices was observed over four consecutive cropping seasons. The yield decline from plant cane to first ratoon is very high under conventional tillage (-16 t/ha) compared with the reduced tillage (+3 t/ha). Even higher cane yield was obtained on the second ratoon (89 t/ha) compared with the conventional tillage (83 t/ha). Conclusion and application: Better knowledge of soil texture as well as total available moisture resulted in improved practices of sprinkler irrigation and soil tillage in Ivorian sugarcane plantations. Key word: particle size distribution, physical property, water retention, available moisture, reduced tillage, irrigation management
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