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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,...
Apr 01, 2024Open Access
The agricultural sector is the most dominant in Uganda’s economy. It’s a main avenue the government uses to improve household food, nutrition and income security. Tea is one of the main cash crops and export commodities after coffee and fish. Tea was promoted both in traditional and emerging districts as a commodity, which smallholder farmers could use to improve household income. The study was carried out to assess: 1) farmers’ capacity building in tea production; 2) tea leaf yields in wet and ...
Mar 29, 2024Open Access
Water is a major component of every living organism, the most inevitable in all plant species as it plays a vital role in their growth and development which in turn translates to a high yield of cultivated crops. Scarcity of water in urban and semi-urban areas of the sub-Saharan Africa as a result of adverse effects of urbanization processes and resultant effects of climate change pertinently require for efficient management and use of the scarce resource (water) in order to meet up with the hig...
Feb 29, 2024Open Access
The Ethiopian economy, largely reliant on the pastoralist system, is significantly impacted by its use in semi-arid regions, ensuring livelihoods and export markets. The study aims to assess the strengths, weaknesses, and overall impact of these initiatives on pastoral communities. Moreover, it explores the resilience factors exhibited by these communities, identifying cultural practices, adaptive strategies, and community-driven approaches contributing to their ability to withstand challenges. ...
Feb 20, 2024Open Access
Breeding and feeding practices were analyzed through field surveys of farmers in the Bobo-Dioulasso and Orodara areas. Fifty-four breeders identified with the support of technical services and breeders’ organiza-tions were interviewed on the socio-demographic characteristics of the breeder, information on the farm, the conduct of the breeding activity, economic parameters and the main constraints of the activity. Confirma-tion of a k-means classification result by Discriminant Factorial Analysis...
Feb 18, 2024Open Access
The aim of the study was to take stock of poultry breeding practices, knowledge and use of synthetic lysine and methionine in intensive poultry breeding in the cities of Koudougou and Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso. To achieve this, a cross-sectional and retrospective survey targeting all intensive poultry breeding in the 2 localities was administered to breeding. A Discriminant Factorial Analysis (DFA) was used to confirm a k-means classification of the data collected, and resulted in the selec...
Jan 31, 2024Open Access
In Ivory Coast, a pedological study was carried out in the locality of Dimbokro (6°38'48'' North and 4°42'18'' West) to find out about the agronomic potential of the soils in this locality due to the insignificant harvests observed among the area’s farmers. To this end, the soils of 12 villages were characterized in situ using soil pits, and samples were taken from the 0 - 20 cm and 20 - 40 cm layers for analytical data. Mean values of soil parameters in savannah zones were compared with...
Jan 31, 2024Open Access
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a region that is often divided for different types of analysis based on social, economic, cultural, political and historical subregional characteristics. For a more productive division for discussion in this paper, SSA is considered as comprised of six distinct regions: East Africa, Sudan-Sahel, West Africa, the Central Africa, Southern Africa and the Islands of the Indian Ocean. Subsistence farming dominates the farming system in SSA. There is little application of t...
Dec 27, 2023Open Access
As part of an agricultural intensification strategy to increase livestock feed productivity, an agronomic trial was set up in Central, Kenya. The agronomic trial followed a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replicate plots measuring 4 meters by 2 meters per treatment. The treatments comprised of NPK fertilizer, Farmyard Manure (FYM), Farm Yard Manure Biochar (FYM-BC), Bioslurry (all at 45 kg N·ha -1), Lablab intercropping (Biological Nitrogen Fixation), and Co...
Dec 13, 2023Open Access
In this paper on basis of feature of sexual crossing breeding and transforming gene breeding: breeding nature, relationship between the two, limitations of molecule breeding operation and amazingly high input, affects of production of Original Theory of Botany (Crop Science) on the two breeding ways were discussed to determine these foreground and future relations. Molecule breeding was a closed breeding that cannot increase yielding ability and it always cannot do without sexual crossing breedi...
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