Agriculture has been the main-stay of Nigeria’s economy of which cocoa production plays a significant role in the acceleration of the national gross domestic product (GDP), in terms of employment generation, feeding the local industries with raw materials and sustains the rural livelihood...

This study seeks to determine the workings of a system of acreage allocation given price and yield uncertainty so as to identify the role that uncertainty in market output has in acreage allocation decisions. This study adapts expected utility as developed by Chavas and Holt. The major findings...

This study was conducted to evaluate and determine the effects of ecotype on laying performance and some egg quality traits in two indigenous chickens ecotype commonly found in Kwara state Nigeria {Fulani Ecotype chicken (FE) and Yoruba Ecotype chicken (YE)}. They were kept in battery cages for...

This paper describes the capacity of food-crop production for improving regional food security in Central Java, Indonesia. It is also identify crops which have high and prospective economic-values. The results of the study might help in formulating a proposed model to improve food crops...

An experimental research to study the effect of plucking cycles on the physiological pattern of leaf growth of tea plant of newly-released tea cultivated varieties (clones) was conducted at Plantation of the Research Centre for Tea and Quinine Trees of Gambung of Bandung, Indonesia from April...

Studies on the germination and growth of seedlings of Lippia multiflora were conducted on several types of substrates. They consisted of germination tests and monitoring of seedling growth. The results showed that the best germination rates were recorded with the batch of seeds germinated on...

The tobacco aphid, Myzus persicae nicotianae is aneconomically important pest of tobacco, causing extensiveyield losses especially as it is an important host of numerousviruses and the sudden shift from the green morph to the redmorph is of concern as reports of insecticide resistance arecommon...

The tobacco aphid, Myzus persicae nicotianae is aneconomically important pest of tobacco, causing extensiveyield losses especially as it is an important host of numerousviruses and the sudden shift from the green morph to the redmorph is of concern as reports of insecticide resistance arecommon...