This research covered three villages in Kura local Government Area of Kano State. The study described the socio-economic characteristics of maize producers and their production techniques and also determined the profitability and resource use efficiency in the maize production. Structured questionnaires were used for primary data collection and 40 small scale producers were purposively selected...

Two hypogean species of genus Triplophysa are herein described from two subterranean tributaries the River Yangtze drainage in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China. wudangensis, new species, can be distinguished its congeners by combination following characters: eye reduced, with diameter 5.1-6.5% HL; interorbital width 33.1-35.8% body scaleless; lateral line complete; posterior chamber air bl...

The Kura-Araxes cultural tradition existed in the highlands of the South Caucasus from 3500 to 2450 BCE (before the Christian era). This tradition represented an adaptive regime and a symbolically encoded common identity spread over a broad area of patchy mountain environments. By 3000 BCE, groups bearing this identity had migrated southwest across a wide area from the Taurus Mountains down int...