Soil provides vegetative life support and sustenance for all plants and animals therefore farmers need appropriate soil analysis with a view to determining soil properties and by extension use the outcome of such analysis ...

Crop production is limited by adverse environmental factors which include soil pollution with heavy metals. Soil is the major sink for heavy metals released into the environment. Plants grown on polluted soil are a potential ...

A field experiment was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of mulching materials for weed control, enhancement of soil conditions and pineapple performance. The study was carried out at the Teaching and Research ...

Increased food production could be achieved in degraded soils by expanding the land area through proper soil management and utilization of abundant wastes in our societies to increase yields per unit area as well as to ...

Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV), genus Sobemovirus is a highly variable pathogen that is very infectious to rice plant. This variability hinders rice breeding for durable resistance to the virus and effective deployment ...

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 ...