ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover plants is a strategy for improving the agricultural production environment and providing straw soil in no-tillage system, addition to cycling nutrients succeeding crops. This study aimed assess dry matter yield accumulation by grown alone or intercropped second crop after soybean their effects on cotton succession. treatments were: Urochloa ruziziensis; Pennise...

The ISCB project "Biofertilization and 'bioirrigation' for sustainable mixed cropping of pigeon pea and finger millet (BIOFI)" was conceived in 2013 and started with much enthusiasm in 2014. Two of the Swiss teams had considerable experience in the ISCB from previous phases, and they strongly welcomed the new approach of the ISCB to focus on the needs of small-holder farms in India and to coupl...

Pigeon Pea seeds (Cajanus cajan) were produced into three different flour samples; full fat, defatted and protein isolate. They were subjected to proximate analysis and determination of some functional properties. Proximate composition was carried out on moisture content, protein content, fat content, carbohydrate, ash content and crude fibre content. The proximate analysis (%) shoed that prote...

The nutritional composition and hypoglycaemic effect of crackers produced from blend of sprouted pigeon pea, unripe plantain and brewers’ spent grain and fed to Alloxan induced diabetic rat was investigated. Crackers were produced from different blends of sprouted pigeon pea, unripe plantain and brewers’ spent grain. The crackers were evaluated for proximate composition, amino acid profile and ...

The suitability of fermented pigeon pea meal as a protein ingredient in diets for Clarias gariepinus fingerlings was evaluated. A strain of Rhizopus oligoporus was used to ferment the meal for six days at 37°C. Five isonitrogenous (30% crude protein) and isoenergetic (16.45 MJ/kg) diets were formulated in which fermented meal was used to replace soybean meal at five inclusion levels (0%, 25%, 5...

This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of differently processed Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) with enzyme, Maxigrain® supplementation on the performance and carcass characteristic of weaner rabbits. The pigeon peas used were raw, boiled and soaked with and without Maxigrain® supplementation, respectively. A total of 42 weaner rabbits (6 weeks old) of mixed breed and sexes with average i...

In the present study, the effect of various processing methods like soaking, autoclaving, storage and pullulanase treatment on resistant starch content and in vitro starch digestibility of dhals (split pulses) of pulses pigeon pea, green gram and black gram was assessed. Results showed that these processing methods including pullulanase treatment significantly decreased the resistant starch (RS...

Interactions between plants and microorganisms in the rhizosphere (rhizobacteria) can clearly affect crop yields. Rhizobacteria that benefit plant growth and development are called PGPR. the most studied PGPR belong to gramnegative genera, and the greatest number of strains are members of the fluorescent pseudomonads in our present investigation was to study the plant growth promoting (PGP) act...

Millet, milo, soybean, crotalaria, and Norman pigeon pea were used in conjunction with clean fallow and a nematicide (fensulfothion) for managing nematode populations in the production of tomato transplants (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.). Glean fallow was the most effective treatment in suppressing nematode numbers. After 2 years in tomato, root-knot nematodes increased in numbers to damaging ...

This study focuses on the development and characterization of pigeon pea stalk/cotton fibers mixed with a blend ratio 50/50, 70/30, 30/70, 60/40, 100/0 waste cotton 0/100 stalk composites are equipped compression molding system. The entire composite samples tested for acoustics, thermal physical parameters as per American Society Testing Materials standard (ASTM). sound absorption coefficients ...