IOSR-JAVS   Volume-11 ~ Issue-7 ~ JULY-2018

ABSTRACT: The study examined the effect of access to Micro-credit loan on poverty reduction in Bauchi State, the case of Dass Local Government Area. Primary data were collected from beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of micro-credit loan in the study area. A total of six hundred (600) questionnaires were administered on the respondents between March, 2013 and November 2014. Systematic Linear and Random Sampling Techniques were used to select three hundred (300) each of micro-credit beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries respectively. The questionnaires were..........

Keywords: micro-credit, poverty and reduction.

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ABSTRACT: This study analyzed mass media use and preference in information sourcing among farming households in Edo state, Nigeria. It examined the socio-economic characteristics of farmers in the study area, identified mass media they use and preferred as well as constraints limiting their use of mass media. Datacollected from a random sample of 387 respondents, were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The result showed that majority of the farmers were males (63.6%), young (average age = 42years), literate, married (62.5%) with an average family size of seven.The study found significant differences among mass media preferred by the farmers with radio (mean = 6.42), television (mean = 6.08) and newspaper (mean = 5.41) being significantly more preferred.........

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ABSTRACT: Population development and hybridization are important for improvement of both quantitative and qualitative traits of different crops and are determined by proper selection of mating designs as well as the parents to be mated. Mating design refers schematic cross between the groups or strains of plants and has been extensively used in agriculture biological sciences. The mating design in plant breeding has two main objectives: (1) to obtain information and understand the genetic control of a trait or behavior that is observed, and (2) to get the base population for the development of plant cultivars. Analysis of variance in offspring plants resulting from mating designs is used to understand the additive and dominant effects, epistasis and heritability. Various mating designs are available and have been effectively utilized to create different kinds of relatives and to estimate the additive as well as..........

Keywords: Sib mating, genetic variance; crosses; statistics; progeny, population

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ABSTRACT: Fifty groundnut genotypes and three checks were evaluated in augmented design with five blocks at the Gezira Research Station Farm. It is located at latitude 14ᴼ, 24՜ N, longitude 33ᴼ, 29՜ E and 407 m above sea level. Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC), Sudan during 2016 to study variability in root characters and genetic diversity under selection pressure. There is a lack of information on root traits for groundnut genotypes and the relationship between rooting traits and groundnut yield under terminal drought. From the result found variability between shoot dry weight, root dry weight, root shoot ratio, shoot length, root length and root volume. Genetic divergences in 50% flowering, plant height, number of branches per plant, number of pods per plant, number of double seeded pods..........

Keywords: Groundnut, Drought, root traits, Variability, Cluster , Kiriz, , Gezira, Sudan

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ABSTRACT: The Mining and Quarrying sectors, which dominates almost 30 percent of the Tanah Laut's economic structure, is experiencing a slowdown in economic growth and has resulted in an increase in the percentage of poor people in Tanah Laut District over the past five years. Agricultural Sector which occupies second position in Tanah Laut Regency economy is expected to be the driving force of the economy and reduce the poverty rate. Agricultural-based economic development is one way to drive the economy in Tanah Laut Regency. This study aims to identify and analyze the agricultural subsector that can be superior in driving the economy of Tanah Laut Regency. Research location in Tanah Laut Regency with research time from November 2017 until May 2018. The data used in this research.........

Keywords: economic growth, leading subsector, agricultural sector.

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ABSTRACT: Diet composition and feeding relationships of three cyprinid species, C. luteus, C. carpio and C. auratus from the Shatt Al-Arab River, Iraq, were assessed during 2016-2017. Fish were collected by gill nets, cast net and electro-fishing. The index of relative importance (IRI%) of food item was determined by combined the frequency of occurrence and points methods. There were monthly variations in feeding activity and intensity of all species, which decreased in the colder months. All species were omnivorous and C. carpio was a low specialized feeder, while C. auratus and C. luteus were generalized feeders. The diet of C. luteus primarily comprised algae (24.3%), aquatic insects.........

Keywords: Cyprinids fish, food habit, omnivorous, Shatt Al-Arab River, Iraq

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ABSTRACT: The study was carried out in Bogoro local Government Area of Bauchi State to evaluate the prospects and constraints to production and processing of Acha (Digitaria exillis). Twenty-eight villages were selected from three (3) districts of the local government. A well-structured questionnaire was designed, pre-tested and purposively distributed to 84 respondents, while data was analyzed using descriptive statistical tools such as frequencies, percentages, bar charts and pie charts. The result indicated that majority of the respondents (62.5%) were females with.........

Keywords: Bogoro, Acha, Production, Processing, Prospects, constraints.

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ABSTRACT: This study investigated the utilization of commercial agricultural credit scheme loans and repayment performance by beneficiary farmers by using descriptive statistics, cross tabulation, logit and probit models and a cross sectional data of 250 farmers of Anambra State, Nigeria in 2015. Results showed that majority of the farmers that benefitted from the scheme were males. Farming experience of majority of the farmers was 5 years and above with farm size of 10 hectares and below. Profit earned by the farmer, amount of credit received, capital base, size of farm land, years of formal education, farming experience and output of the farmer after accessing the scheme were factors that influenced loan repayment performance of the beneficiary farmers positively. The farmers that benefitted from the scheme used the loan mostly for livestock production, crop production and agro-marketing. Recommendations were made based on the findings..

Keywords: Agricultural credit, repayment performance, beneficiary farmers, probit model.

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ABSTRACT: The experimental treatments were arranged in Randomize Complete Block Design with three replicates was carried out at Al- Diwanyh province during winter season 2017-2018 in silt loam soil. The main plots were assigned to irrigation period, whereas biofertilizers application was assigned to the sub plots. NPK mineral fertilizer were applied, as they are commonly used for growing wheat plants and recommended by Ministry of Agriculture were applied to all treatment excepted treatments biofertilizers application added half amount of chemical fertilizers recommended. Sowing was done on November 20th/2017 and harvest was done on 7/ May /2018. The irrigation period (every 10, 15 and 20 days) were arranged in main plots whereas, treatments of biofertilizers application in the sub plots (Bacteria solvent phosphate – Bacillus sabtilus + Azotobacter chroococcum for nitrogen fixation + Bacillus muceliganus solvent potassium and Tricoderma harzianum) were added rate 4 kg h-.........

Keywords: irrigation period, biofertilizers application, wheat, water productivity

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