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Aug 06, 2026Open Access
Despite the numerous importance of taro, it still remains an underutilised crop in Ghana with little information on many aspects of the crop, especially agronomic practices. In order to obtain data that can be used to improve and sustain taro production, an experiment was conducted to study growth, yield, and other agro-morphological traits of three promising taro accessions (BL/SM/80, BL/SM/16, and KA/019) with the objective of comparing the growth and yield on wetland and upland and identify e...
Sep 18, 2025Open Access
The livestock sector remains a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly through cattle production. This study evaluates the climate efficiency of the United Kingdom’s cattle meat sector between 2016 and 2021 using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) under a Constant Returns to Scale (CRS) model. Key input variables included agricultural land use, emission intensity, methane emissions, and total animal emissions, while cattle meat production served as the out...
Aug 19, 2025Open Access
Biofertilizers present a viable solution for enhancing soil fertility, improving plant nutrition, and advancing environmental sustainability in agriculture and forest ecosystems. These microorganism-based fertilizers not only supply essential nutrients to plants but also foster soil health, thereby reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers. This review highlights various types of biofertilizers, such as mycorrhizal fungi, rhizobia, and compost, and examines their mechanisms of action and applic...
Jul 01, 2025Open Access
Ghanaians place a high value on agriculture, but crop cultivation is threatened by increase in extreme weather events. Diversified and intensive cropping system, such as intercropping major cereals with orphan or neglected legumes can increase total productivity. To determine which mung bean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) genotype is promising for maize-mung bean intercropping, a two-year experiment was carried out at Manga (11？01N, 0？16W). The findings indicated that every genotype examined (IC-393...
Dec 30, 2024Open Access
Tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum mill) is a significant vegetable crop cultivated globally, second only to potatoes in acreage yet leading as a crop processed for various products. The global hectares under tomato production is 4.9 million producing 186.1 million tonnes annually and Uganda has 6606 hectares with a production of 37637.2 tonnes. Although 90.9% of Ugandan farmers use fertilizers to increase tomato yields, the yields are still very low at 4 t∙ha -1 even with ...
Sep 18, 2024Open Access
For smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, determining which cowpea genotype is most promising for intercropping systems involving maize and cowpeas can be difficult. It is challenging for smallholder farmers in northern Ghana to identify the most promising cowpea genotype to combine with maize. In the 2021 and 2022 cropping seasons, twenty-nine cowpea genotypes were grown from July to October at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research—Savannah Agricultural Research Institute rese...
Apr 10, 2024Open Access
This study examines the economic efficiency of sorghum production in designated districts of Fafan, Somali National Regional State, Ethiopia, with a focus on enhancing agricultural sustainability. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, including quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews, the research assesses factors influencing efficiency, such as input utilization, farming practices, and socio-economic variables. Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) is employed to gauge technical, allocative,...
Jul 31, 2023Open Access
The jalapeño pepper ( Capsicum annuum L.) is important for the uses it possesses, in addition to being a source of employment. Due to its importance, it is necessary to produce quality seedlings, which own the characteristics that allow them to adapt in the field or greenhouse at the time of transplantation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of five nutrient-rooters and a formula on the growth and accumulation of dry root weight, dry stem weight and dry leaf wei...
Jul 14, 2022Open Access
In Uganda, sorghum constitutes the second most widely grown cereal according to the latest statistics from the country’s statistics body, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. This notwithstanding, there has been, in the context of Uganda, very little research and published literature on its potential to sequester carbon. There is no sufficient data on the exact levels of carbon sequestered by this sorghum/legume intercropping system, which is widespread as a technology within Uganda’s smallholder so...
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