September 2015

Soil attributes in agricultural uses and in the Semiarid RN-Brazil in eutrophic Cambisol

Soil attributes are an important tool to identify appropriate practices for crop management. This study aimed at evaluating physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of soil in agricultural uses, regarding its potential and/or restrictions in the municipality de Governador Dix-Sept Rosado (RN). Soil samples with deformed structure were collected with the aid of an auger Dutch-type zigzag layers in the 0.00-0.10;...

Author(s): Rauny Oliveira de Souza, Jeane Cruz Portela, Carolina Malala Martins, Nildo da Silva Dias, Jussiara Sonally Jácome Cavalcante, Jucirema Ferreira da Silva, Francisco Souto de Sousa Júnior and Francisco Vanies da Silva Sá

September 2015

Periods of competition between weeds and soybean crop in Cerrado

This paper aimed to identify the periods of weed interference in soybean cultivar P98Y12, in the 2011/2012 harvest. The importance of this paper is that soybean is a commodity of great participation of the Brazilian economy and one of the largest contributions in the balance of exports. The assay was carried out in Oxisol, in the town of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil. The experimental design was a...

Author(s): Francisco de Assis Rolim Pereira, José Antonio Maior Bono, José Francisco dos Reis Neto, Denis Santos da Silveira, Cleomar Berselli and Fernando Tadeu de Carvalho

September 2015

Agronomic and economic efficiency of nitrogen fertilization in garlic culture

This study was aimed at evaluating the influence of nitrogen fertilization on the productivity of garlic culture. The experiment was carried out at Goiás State University, Ipameri Unit. The randomized block design was adopted for the experiment, with six treatments and four replications. The treatment consisted of nitrogen doses in cover crop (0; 40; 80; 160; 320 and 640 kg ha-1), applied at 15, 30 and 70 days...

Author(s): Marco Antonio Moreira Pereira, Adilson Pelá, Rafael Umbelino Bento, Renan Cesar Dias Silva, Luciano Vaz Pereira and Sihélio Júlio Silva Cruz

September 2015

Morphological evaluation of selected sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) genotypes from five states in Northern Nigeria

The morphological characteristics of 12 selected sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) genotypes, from five states in  northern part of Nigeria (Kaduna, Niger, Nassarawa, Kogi, and Benue), were evaluated during the 2012 cropping season at the Department of Biological Sciences experimental field, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria using a randomized block design. The objective of the experiment was to assess the...

Author(s): O. A. Falusi, S. A. Yahaya, A. A. Gado, O. A. Y. Daudu, O. A. Akinbo and J. A. Teixeira da Silva

September 2015

Performance evaluation of a motorized ginger juice expression machine

Ginger juice obtained from mechanical expression of fresh ginger rhizomes offers a value-added ginger product which increases market opportunity for farmers. In this study, the performance of a developed motorized ginger juice expression machine was evaluated to determine the effects of moisture content of ginger and screw shaft speed on the expression efficiency, juice yield, expression loss and throughput capacity....

Author(s): Onu Olughu Onu and Kayode Joshua Simonyan

September 2015

Effect of inoculating seeds with Bradyrhizobium japonicum on the agronomic performance of five varieties of soybean (Glycine max) in Côte d’Ivoire

Recent studies in the Nawa region of Côte d’Ivoire have indicated an acute malnutrition rate of 11.3% among cocoa producers. One of recommended actions from the studies was to diversify agriculture with nutrients rich crops. Introduction of soybean (Glycine max) cropping system could go a long way to ensure food and nutritional security in the region. The current study was conducted in two sites (Logboayo...

Author(s): N’Zi Jean-Claude, Koua Ahossi Patrice, Kouassi Koffi Daouda, Kahia Jane, Kouassi Jean-Luc, N’Guetta Assanvo Simon-Pierre and Kouamé Christophe