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Agriculture, 2023 Studies on smallholders’ determinants of soil fertility management practices have become increasingly important for boosting agricultural productivity, particularly in cereal-based farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
Shiro Mukai
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Gaskell's Food Plots and the Biopolitics of the Industrial Novel [PDF]
Victorian Literature and Culture, 2019 This essay uses Elizabeth Gaskell's industrial novelsMary Barton(1848) andNorth and South(1955) to chart an intersection between biopolitics, food studies, and questions of novelistic form. First, the essay develops the argument that with the emergence of population as a key cultural concern, the Victorian novel became a biopolitical form structured by
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Insects, 2022 Clanis bilineata tsingtauica Mell is a nutritious edible insect. In the present study, soybean variety NN89-29 susceptible to leaf-feeding insects was used as the experiment material to evaluate the rearing factors affecting the production of C ...
Xiaofeng Liu +8 more
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FOOD CROP PRODUCTIVITY IN NIGERIA: AN ESTIMATION OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY AND TECHNOLOGICAL GAP RATIO
Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2021 Background: This study analyzed the determinants of food crop productivity in Nigeria. Objectives: To describe the socio-economic characteristics of the food crop farmers, estimate the meta-frontier production and compare the technological gap ratio of ...
H.M. Adeleke +4 more
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Modified Arrhenius Equation in Materials Science, Chemistry and Biology
Molecules, 2021 The Arrhenius plot (logarithmic plot vs. inverse temperature) is represented by a straight line if the Arrhenius equation holds. A curved Arrhenius plot (mostly concave) is usually described phenomenologically, often using polynomials of T or 1/T.
Jan Kohout
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Effects of Food Plots on White-Tailed Deer in Kisatchie National Forest [PDF]
Journal of Range Management, 1993 An extensive food plot program maintained for 4 years on the National Red Dirt Wildlife Management Preserve of the Kisatchie National Forest, La., failed to produce improvements in southern pine-mixed hardwood forest range sufficient to affect quality of deer (Odocoileus virginianus) harvested by sport hunters. A combination of normal forest management
Mark K. Johnson, Kenneth D. Dancak
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Application of story elements in children's food packaging design based on cognitive psychology
Shipin yu jixie, 2022 This paper analyzes the problems existing in the current packaging design of children's food in China, and studies the emotional value, intellectual value, information transmission value and brand value of story elements in the packaging design of ...
TANG Hua
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RELATIVE TOXICITY OF SOME CHEMICAL PESTICIDES AGAINST JUTE HAIRY CATERPILLAR (SPILOSOMA OBLIQUA W.) IN TOSSA JUTE (CORCHORUS OLITORIUS L.) [PDF]
Malaysian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 2021 Pesticides have been a major contributor to the growth of agricultural productivity and food supply. Pesticides were a key factor in significant agricultural productivity growth during the last century and continue to be a critical factor in reducing ...
Md. Sohanur Rahman +4 more
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Biotropia: The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Biology, 2019 Food insecurity has been reported to be the top most concern in East Nusa Tenggara (Timor Island) compared to that in other provinces in Indonesia. The use of local species as food sources is one possible arm in the fight against food insecurity. Gewang (
Yayan Wahyu Candra Kusuma +1 more
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Soil Fertility Management for Wildlife Food Plots
EDIS, 2007 SL-248, 4-page illustrated fact sheet by C.L Mackowiak, includes sections on soil sampling, soil analyses, soil pH/liming, fertilizer recommendations, and organic fertilizers. Published by the UF Department of Soil and Water Science, March 2007.
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