The knowledge of soil hydraulic properties and processes leads to better predictions of both agricultural and environment impact. Soil hydraulic properties also define the relationship between soil moisture, hydraulic head ...

In the development of a cassava harvesting tool, there is the need to know the actual weight of materials (soil and cassava tuber plant) that the soil working tool would be working against. The cassava lifting coefficient, ...

An instrumentation system was assembled to measure and record draught in soil-tool interaction in tillage study. The instrumentation system consisted of a load cell, strain gauge amplifier, data logger and a computer system ...

The production of good quality fermented locust beans is essential, having known its rate of spoilage. Different methods have been used over time and this has probably affected the quality of stored fermented locust beans. ...

Traction is an important study in the behavior of tractive devices for off road vehicles. Studies in traction are usually conducted with test rig facility under controlled conditions. Such facilities are presently non-existent ...

The aim of this study was to design, construct, evaluate and model the performance of solar aided structure for storage of freshly harvested maize (Zea mays) in a humid tropical climate. A crib with two drying chambers of ...

A single screw fish feed extruder have been developed using locally sourced materials as a means of encouraging effective fish feed production in Nigeria. It has been evaluated for performance in terms of the system and ...

Milling operation is one of the mostly used size reduction technique in several household and food processing industries. In this study, the performance of a hammer mill that was fabricated in the Department of Agricultural ...

Starch is a polymer of glucose found in most plant. It belongs to the class of organic compound called carbohydrates, which comprising of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. It is produced from raw materials like maize, wheat, ...

Some water balance models have been developed to predict runoff using parameters such as precipitation and potential evapotranspiration. In this study, three lumped monthly water balance models of different levels of ...