The preconditioners heats, hydrates and mixes the dry raw materials before extrusion and automatically doses the pre-treated product into the extruder. FUTA has developed a floating fish feed extruder, however there is ...

Soil water is a major limiting factor to the production of maize particularly under rainfed condition. Field experiments were conducted in the early and late season periods at the experimental Engineering, F.U.T. ...

Various methods of harvesting grains, type of grain losses and how to minimize them are discussed. The header unit of a tractor-driven combine harvester was designed, fabricated and tested. The unit consists principally ...

Erosion is one of the commonest environmental hazard that has rendered useless millions of hectares of arable soils in the tropics. This study was aimed at determining the runoff characteristics of soils planted with ...

This study was conducted to evaluate the performance of a preconditioner and the qualities of the extrudate under varying operating conditions (screw speed, moisture content of the fed materials and the fill ratio). ...

There is urgent need to develop more sensitive instrumentation for capturing draught force data in soil bin experimentation. Hither to, a spring force dynamometer has been used in our previous studies and we had felt we ...

Treatment of Agricultural wastes were conducted on three farms and two companies in Akure, Nigeria. (i.e FUTA, FCAA, and JOFA farms and Fembo Nigeria Limited and Bacita Sugar Company). Waste handling methods of the ...

Fruits juices which is in a liquid form and primary source of vitamin C are nutritious, enjoyable and easy to consume are subjected to thermal treatment in food industry and understanding of their responses to these ...

A survey study to establish the status of agricultural equipment fabrication industries was pain-stakenly. carried out in Ekiti and Ondo ,States of Nigeria which are acknowledge agrarian states The study assessed information ...

Drought existence is not new in Lokoja (Kogi State) of Nigeria, considering the fact that the entire sahel region is susceptible to climatic anomalies. The climatic phenomenon cannot be prevented nor eradicated; rather ...