Ninety male crossbred pigs were allocated at 30 kg live weight to a 6 5 factorial experiment involving six diets and five levels of feeding where average daily intakes were 1.11, 1.36, 1.67, 1.90 kg and ad libitum between 30 and 60 kg live weight. The control diet contained predominantly animal protein sources, another four diets contained 350 g/kg of either kernels or seeds of either L. angust...

four west african dwarf (wad) grower bucks averaging 6 kg in weight and aged between 5-6 months of age were used in a digestive trial to determine the intake and digestibility of raw or processed pigeon pea seed meal based diets. the diets designated rpbd, spbd, tpbd and bpbd were formulated from cassava peel, palm kernel cake, brewers dry grain, bone meal and common salt to contain 15% of raw,...

The present study was carried out to estimate genetic variability parameters for some traits such as pods per plant, cell membrane stability, one thousand kernel weight, flowering period, grain filling period, chlorophyll content, relative water content, leaf excised water content, seed per pod and pod length, in 16 winter rapeseed genotypes. Statistical analysis showed significant differences ...

Original scientific paper Renewable sources should be preferred by a modern society and this should be done not only in the areas of material engineering. Jatropha curcas L. is a plant with a high potential with many technologically utilized parts among which seeds most of all. The seeds of the plant serve for the pressing of oil. During this technological process worse utilizable commodities s...