Background: Microbial and fungal contamination of agricultural produce has been a health challenge over the years. The present study surveyed microbial and aflatoxin contamination in groundnut, maize, and cowpea collected from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Methods: Ninety samples of maize, groundnut, and cowpea were purchased from six major markets in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The samples were first e...

Intercropping systems compared to monoculture systems can more efficiently use the existing resources which ultimately will lead to increased plant performance. Therefore, to evaluate the benefits of intercropping maize and beans and assess its impact on yield and yield’s component, an experiment was conducted in factorial design with randomized complete block design in three replication, in 20...

Purpose: Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is an underutilised minor grown as a rain-fed crop in subsistence farming systems tropical African and Asian countries including Sri Lanka. It identified climate-resilient that exhibits huge potential to diversify conventional systems, however few modelling studies have assessed this crop, especially the tropics. The objective of study calibrate vali...

this research aimed at investigating the effect of different levels of nitrogen and planting patterns on dry matter production and growth physiological indices in intercropping maize and sunflower. to do this a split plot experiment carried out based randomized complete block design with three replications in research field of shushtar islamic azad university. the main plot included three level...

on the basis of acreage, production and import amounts, maize is one of the strategic products in iran, regarding defects of marketing system of maize, in this analysis using yearly observations between 1368 to 1385 (18 years) and eviews software, the marketing and econometric model of maize marketing margin was studied. the results show that the most important factor in the maize marketing mar...

Accurate early season predictions of crop yield at the within-field scale can be used to address a range production, management, and precision agricultural challenges. While remote sensing insights has been research goal for many years, it is only recently that observations with required spatio-temporal resolutions, together efficient assimilation methods integrate these into modeling framework...

Abstract To find out how maize and potato can grow and develop in an intercropping system rather than each grown alone in a sole cropping system the following factorial experiment was performend in the frame-work of a randomized complete block three replications in the experimental farm of the faculty of agriculture, Zanjan University in year 2004. Different potato to maize ratios of (1:0), i...