The study aimed at establishing relationship between the socio-demographic variables and choice of non-farm rural livelihood patterns in Southeast Nigeria. Three (3) specific objectives which guided the study are to: examine the socio-demographic variables of rural households in southeast...

One of the challenges of malaria control is inappropriate treatment and development of resistance by its causal agent (plasmodium species). Arteminsinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) was adopted as first-line treatment for malaria to improve quality of the treatment. This study aimed at...

The Microfinance system in Nigeria and many sub-Sahara countries has suffered serious setback due to poor loan repayment. This study attempt at assessing the loan-repayment performance of Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO). LAPO in Nigeria was chosen to be investigated because of its profile...

The prepared seed slices of African oil bean (pentaclthra macrophylla Benth) were subjected to different fermentations periods and dried using different drying method to produce “Ugba”. Slices were milled to obtain flour. The flour from different ‘Ugba' samples were analysed for microbial...

Performance and economic returns of developed automated cassava-grating machine was investigated. The equipment has a realistic functional efficiency of 91.5% and 88.4% for manually and electrically powered operation with the discharge capacity 4.04 and 3.66 tons per day respectively. Simulation...

Purpose of this study is to explore level of local community participation in Watershed Management Programs (WMP) within the rural population in Iran, and explore how level of people participation varies according to their socio demographic backgrounds. Data for this study were collected from...

This paper monitor the deposition of Citrobacter in high porous medium in saline environment, the study investigate the behaviour of the contaminant in saline environment, the application of deterministic model developed simulation values that express the behaviour and effect from high porous...

This study was carried out on palm date fruit Zaghloul from Egypt. Spathes were sprayed three times at growth start, after fruit setting and at one month later with four substances namely Amino acids, Sugar alcohol, Algae extract in concentration of 2% and Licorice root extraction (Glycyrrhiza...