Inadequate road infrastructure has been one of the problems of rural dwellers in Nigeria. Various programmes on road intervention had been introduced by past and present administrations in Nigeria to provide road infrastructure ...

It has been established that agriculture alone does not provide sufficient livelihood opportunities hence diversification into non-farm activities is seen as a coping mechanism. Level of non-farm income diversification, ...

The study was to examine the effect of malaria on the technical efficiency of rice farmers in Nigeria through some specific objectives which are to: describe the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents; determine ...

This study examined the determinants of income diversification among cocoa farmers in Ondo state Nigeria. The study examined the socio-economic characteristics of cocoa farmers in the study area; identify other sources of ...

This study examined selected socio-economic characteristics of rainfed upland rice growers and discussed the crop's production practices in Ondo State; estimated the gross margin per hectare and determined efficiency of ...

The effects of some cropping systems on soil properties at two depths were investigated using physico-chemical and microbial properties. Soil samples were collected under four cropping systems at three locations. The lad ...

An experiment was conducted in the screen house of the Department of Crop, Soil and Pest Management, Federal University of Technology, Akure to evaluate the effects of watering regimes and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) ...

Callosobruchus maculatus is a major storage pest of cowpea (Vignaunquiculata) in Nigeria.This study was conducted under laboratory conditions of 28±20C and relative humidity of 75±5% to evaluate the entomocidal potency of ...

Field and pot (containerized soil) experiments were conducted in 2011 and 2012 respectively at the Teaching and Research Farm, Federal University of Technology, Akure, a humid rainforest zone of Nigeria. The aims were to ...

The fruit piercing moth, Anomis leona Schaus (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a major defoliator pest of cocoa in Nigeria causing severe losses to farmers in the event of outbreak of the pest. There is scanty information on the ...