» ABSTRACT This work is designed to examine the problems faced by small farm holders in accessing loan facilities in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State. The researcher examined the role of commercial banks in financing agriculture in Edo State. Recommendations were made to resolve t…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT Declining productivity of yam in Nigeria highlighted the need for a study to determine both the effect of fertilization on yam (Dioscorea spp.) yield andhe best agronomic management options available for stabilizing yam productivity, via the modeling of yam growth and development. This s…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This work is designed to examine the problems faced by small farm holders in accessing loan facilities in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State. The researcher examined the role of commercial banks in financing agriculture in Edo State. Recommend actions were made to resolve th…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This research was carried out to determine the problems affecting small scale farmers in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. Sixty questionnaires were drawn to generate the necessary information to satisfy the aim of this research and they were randomly administered in most …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The burning of natural vegetation no doubt removes the protective cover of the soil surface and depreciates the quality of the soil. Burning is done without regards to soil degradation and this called for this work have the project focuses attention on the merits and demerits of bush burnin…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of mechanized farming in the economic development of Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. The study consists of five chapters. Chapter one was the introduction of the study on the impact of mechanized farming. However, the signific…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This study is about the factors challenging plantation agriculture in Edo state, A case study of Ovia North East Local Government Area. Several factors were identified that challenged plantation farm. example of such factors are lack of capital, use of old plantation, farm, unavailability o…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT Chapter one of this project will deal with the statement of problems rationale of study significance of study and definition of terms. Chapter two will examine in details the related literature to the project. Chapter three will deal with statement of hypotheses methodology of …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT It is a common practice in Nigeria and other West Africa Countries especially in area lying within the rainforest belt, with thick vegetation cover, the aim of management should be to avoid excessive and inadequate level of farming system and maintains sufficient for planting of cocoya…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT It is a common practice in Nigeria and other West Africa Countries especially in area lying within the rainforest belt, with thick vegetation cover, the aim of management should be to avoid excessive and inadequate level of farming system and maintains sufficient for planting of cocoyam. …Continue Reading »
» TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover Page Title Page Certification …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT Chapter one of this project will deal with the statement of problems rationale of study significance of study and definition of terms. Chapter two will examine in details the related literature to the project. Chapter three will deal with statement of hypotheses methodology of …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This project work was carried out in Ovia North West Local Government Area of edo state to examine the problems of duck farming within the area. 5o questionnaires were distributed among farmers in the local government but there response where only analyzed using simple fr…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT Modern form of Co operative leaves their origin in the tension and opportunities created by industrialization and urbanization in the nineteenth Century in Europe. Much of the early interested in co operative structure seemed from deep regards to the social consequence of industrial capital…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The research work on the topic “improving Agricultural production through co operative (A case study of Ndokwa West L. G. A Delta State Co operative as was carried out to survey the past programmes and polities constituted by government to mobilize peasant farmers into agricultural co o…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The research has been designed to identify the problem and prospect of rubber farming in Edo State Ovia South West Local Government Area. This is done so as to suggest possible ways of exposing to the public the economic condition of rubber production problems and prospec…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background to the Study The economies of the developed nations has agriculture as the basis for growth and development. Most developing countries have agriculture as their primary (traditional) pursuit and it’s the gateway to sustained growth of the …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE Fufu is a dough – like consistency prepared from predominantly starchy material by pounding the boiled material or by cooking a non gelatinized powder or paste icold o hot water (krama and maz 1972) This is usually eaten with soup or (ownueme, 1978) Ngoddy and Ihekoronye 1985) Fufu…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Agriculture accounts for about 20 percent of GDP, in the African sub region (World Bank, 2005); two third of the people derive from livelihoods and 40 percent of exports commodities come from this sector (World Bank, 2000). …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTThis study was carried out to estimate the effectiveness of agro allied wastes as carriers of the biological control organism, T. harzianum, by evaluating colonization and sporulation rate of each. The selected substrates were corn husk, Alstonia and Iron wood. The substrates were supplement…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTThis study was carried out to evaluate the effect of biomodification with the fungi Trichoderma harzianum on the chemical composition as well as the in vitro gas production characteristics of melon seed husk (MH) with or without supplementation with wheat bran (WB). Wheat bran supplemented m…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTPupuru (a fermented cassava product) is one of the major staple foods amongst the Yoruba, Ilaje and Ijaw speaking people in the south south and south western region of Nigeria, which had its source from the Ikale tribe of Ondo state. The traditional method of processing cassava tubers into p…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTThe comparative investigation of the germination and early growth of two Agroforstry tree species in the nursery was studied. Seeds of Annona recticulata were collected from a compound in Benin City. while the fruits of Annona muricata were purchased from New Benin Market. On the 6th of June…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTSoya beans and Ife brown beans were evaluated for their physical characteristics (seed size, seed shape, textile colour and weight) before and after cooking with hot plate. The cooking time of the Ife brown beans seed was 52 minutes and soya beans seed did notcook after 180 minutes of boilin…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACTThis study was carried out to investigate the in vitro gas fermentation pattern using maize straw with cassava peels based supplement fed to WAD goats. The goats were fed in six different treatments, with (treatment 1: maize straw +10%cassava peels concentrate without oil drench, treatment 2…Continue Reading »
