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Dec 10, 2020Open AccessArticle
Due to one of the major tea-producing regions of the country, the quality and brand have been affirmed, Thai Nguyen province has identified tea as the main crop to develop local economy as well as improve farm households income. The main objective of this study is analyzing the financial efficiency of tea farmers in Thai Nguyen province through the data collected from 210 households. The results indicated that the financial efficiency of tea cultivation is quite high with the rate of return on t...
Oct 20, 2020Open AccessArticle
Water and nutrients are the basic requirements for crop growth, which are mutually interacting and restricted. This paper studied winter wheat (wheat breed: Ji wheat 22) on changes in soil nutrient leaching in the regulation measures of water and fertilizer (two irrigation methods: traditional irrigation (A) and water-saving irrigation (B); three fertilization factors: no fertilization (CK), traditional fertilization (FC) and optimized fertilization (FO)). The results showed that under the diffe...
Jun 10, 2020Open AccessArticle
Faced with the possible depletion of fossil fuels and the growing demand for energy; the liquid biofuels are being considered as a renewable energy alternative with low impact on carbon emissions. Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench) is a good alternative as it has several advantages in relation to other plant species. Given the interest of the Mexican Government to promote biofuels and S. bicolor in particular, this work aimed to spatially delimit the optimal and suboptimal areas to produ...
May 20, 2020Open AccessArticle
Hydroponic is a subset of hydroculture, which is a method of growing plants without soil by instead using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent. The study aimed to assess the behavior of Minetto and Blonde de Paris varieties of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) in hydroculture. The experiments tanks have been installed in Talanga？ Micro-garden site, located in Kimbanguiste Church at Brazzaville. The lettuce seeds were sown in a nursery tank, and then transplanted into 4 hydroponic production t...
Feb 28, 2020Open AccessArticle
The demand for wood fuels in rural and some urban areas of Ghana keeps on increasing which could lead to forest degradation. The present study sought to produce and characterise briquette made from cocoa pod husk and a mixed sample which comprised of a mixture of cocoa pod husk and sawdust as an alternative source of fuel to reduce the pressure on wood fuels. Simple methods were used to produce the briquette for the study. The physico-chemical properties of the ...
Jan 24, 2019Open AccessArticle
A variable-feed hydrous-bioethanol fuel injector (VFHBFI) for retrofitted en-gine was designed and evaluated to provide a technology that would allow spark-ignition engines commonly used by farmers be fuelled with hydrous bio-ethanol from nipa. With this technology, farmers can make use of their farm resources to fuel their engines making them less dependent on imported fossil fuel. The VFHBFI consists o ...
Dec 21, 2018Open AccessArticle
An appropriate rice-based (ARB) biomass gasifier was designed and de-veloped for farmers’ use. The gasification properties of rice-based biomass were determined before doing the design. The gasifier was built using salvage petrol drums, metal bars and concrete as primary construction materials. It has a 30 cm-diameter reactor insulated with refractory cement. A 10 cm-o cross flow scrubber with 30 cm-thick packed-bed filter is used ...
Feb 28, 2018Open AccessArticle
This research work aims to study the perceptions of
pastoralists and agro- pastoralists
on climate change impacts on mobile herding and the effectiveness of herders’ adaptive strategies
within Kompienga Province, south-eastern region of Burkina Faso. In order to
achieve this aim, survey data were retrieved from 271 respondents and analysed.
From respondents’ perceptions, climate change is real and is negatively
affecting forage av ...
Feb 24, 2016Open AccessArticle
The aim of study was to assess the overall performance of Bedene Alemtena
small scale irrigation scheme using internal and external performance
indicators. Primary data were collected from three farmers’ field situated at
the upper, middle, and downstream of the main canal. Discharge measurements and
soil sample analysis were conducted, and secondary data were collected from
Halaba Kullito Bureau of Agriculture. CROPWAT 8.0 computer model was used to
calculate the crop water requirements. From t...
Nov 28, 2014Open AccessArticle
This research is an innovation of the portable rice
hull stove equipment to save time, investment, manpower and the environment. A
desired distance of 5 cm bottom height of the inside burner from ash retainer
is obtained as the critical point in achieving the best combustion process. The
unique characteristic of this innovative design is the perforated inside and
outside burners and the detachable inside burner for easy replacement and
durability of this stove. Specifically, this rice hull stove...
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