The study determined the effects of time use patterns on household income based on gender difference in Ondo State of Nigeria. The study was undertaken to provide baseline information on the socio-economic characteristics ...

This study explored the production of phenolic bio-oil from the bark of Detarium senegalense (forest biomass) via the solovolysis liquefaction method. The bio-oil was used as a partial substitute of commercial phenol with ...

Frying performance of melon seed oil, conophor nut oil and African oil bean seed oil was investigated by assessing the physicochemical changes of the oils during frying of plantain, yam and potato chips. Sensory evaluation ...

The potential of cocoyam flour in baking and its acceptability to consumers were explored using two edible cultivars of cocoyam. Taro (Colocasia esculenta) and tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) were processed to produce ...

Fresh water crabs are a cheap and important source of animal protein to human beings. They also serve as bio-indicators of ecosystem disruption and also conservation icons. This study is to observe the genetic variations ...

An investigation on the toxicity of industrial effluents from Agbara environs of Ologe lagoon on the fingerlings and juveniles of Oreochromis niloticus and Clarias gariepinus was undertaken. This study was pertinent to ...

Sacred sites are meeting points for biodiversity and religio-cultural history of people. Till date, there have been very few studies on the floristic composition of these sites especially considering the fact that urbanization ...

Due to high cost, non availability and technical reasons, agriculture with high rate of chemical fertilizer is not practised in Nigeria and other African countries. There is need to investigate into the use of organic ...

Cowpea, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. is susceptible to a large number of pathogenic organisms that cause diseases and bring about crop damage and yield loss. Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid. is a soil-borne pathogen ...

One field and one laboratory experiments were conducted over four years in a study to assess the effects of neem seed-based fertilizer and selected herbicides on weed control efficacy and soil chemical, biological and ...