Background: In Iran, maize is cultivated in wide areas including northern provinces. It is one of the most important crops for poultry and livestock feeding, which is susceptible to aflatoxins (AFs) contamination. So, pre-harvest maize samples from Mazandaran province, north of Iran were analyzed for AFs contamination. Objective:   Methods: Thirty-five pre-harvest maize samples were analyzed ...

Maize is among the most important cereal crops in Ethiopia. Rely-intercropping of mung bean between maize enable to get grain yield instead sole alone. Field experiment was conducted assess effects relay intercropping at different population density and row arrangements with components component crops, evaluate productivity economic value maize-mung Sankura Wereda Jejebicho research station 201...

Trees improve the soil quality and their rapid growth in the tropics make agroforestry systems potentially effective for establishing low-input agricultural systems in this region. This study assessed the effects of the biophysical interactions among leguminous trees, weeds, cotton and maize in an alley cropping system. The experiment comprised six treatments: Clitoria + Gliricidia; Acacia ...

Water use efficiency (WUE) reflects the coupling of the carbon and water cycles and is an effective integral trait for assessing the responses of vegetated ecosystems to climate change. In this study, field experiments were performed to examine leaf WUE (WUEleaf) in response to changes in CO2 concentration and other environmental variables, including soil moisture and air temperature. We al...

BACKGROUND The use of energy crops and agricultural residues is expected to increase to fulfil the legislative demands of bio-based components in transport fuels. Ensiling methods, adapted from the feed sector, are suitable storage methods to preserve fresh crops throughout the year for, for example, biogas production. Various preservation methods, namely ensiling with and without acid addition...

A total of 280 unsexed broiler chicks, 21 days-old and weighing 580 g on average were randomly distributed into 28 experimental units of 10 birds each. Seven experimental diets containing respectively 0% (T0 control), 20% raw cowpeas (T1), 20% raw cowpeas + 0.2% of Canarium charcoal (T2), 20% raw cowpeas + 0.2% maize cob charcoal (T3), 20% cooked cowpeas (T4), 20% cooked cowpeas + 0.2% Canarium...

Nitrogen (N) fertilizer use is rapidly intensifying on tropical croplands and has the potential to increase emissions of greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide (N 2 O). Since about 2005 Mato Grosso (MT), Brazil shifted from single-cropped soybeans double-cropping with maize, now produces 1.5% world's maize. This production shift required an in N fertilization, but effects O are poorly known. We calibrat...

Huang-Huai-Hai Plain is the most important region for grain production in China. In this area, long-term rotary tillage winter wheat and no summer maize have significantly increased soil bulk density, which impede root growth reduce yield. Subsoiling an effective practice to improve properties crop growth. The objective of study was investigate integrated effects subsoiling both seasons on spat...

Most recommended fertilizer rates available for crops in the northern savanna zone of Nigeria are for crops in monoculture. In order to be able to recommend to farmers the rates of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to be applied to maize and rice in an intercropping system to increase crop yields, a field experiment was conducted at the Samaru farm of the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR)...