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Design and Evaluation of Drip Irrigation System for Date Palm Plantations in MAUTECH, Yola, Adamawa State, Northeastern Nigeria [PDF]

Computational Engineering and Physical Modeling, 2018
Irrigation using dripping system is often considered more efficient method in terms of both water application and labour. The research is aimed at design and evaluating the drip irrigation system for the Date Palm Plantations in MAUTECH, Yola, Adamawa ...
Buba Ankidawa, D. Zakariah
doaj   +1 more source

Wood quality of eucalyptus plantation in Brazil [PDF]

, 2012
The area of eucalyptus plantations in Brazil is 4,3 million ha, as a result of the fiscal incentives policies implanted in the 60's. That significant area concentrated mainly in the states of Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo and Bahia seeks to supply the demand ...
Chaix, Gilles, Oliveira, José Tarcisio Silva, Tomazello Filho, Mario   +2 more
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of methods and marker Systems in Genomic Selection of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)

BMC Genetics, 2017
Background Genomic selection (GS) uses genome-wide markers as an attempt to accelerate genetic gain in breeding programs of both animals and plants.
Qi Bin Kwong, Chee Keng Teh, Ai Ling Ong, Fook Tim Chew, Sean Mayes, Harikrishna Kulaveerasingam, Martti Tammi, Suat Hui Yeoh, David Ross Appleton, Jennifer Ann Harikrishna   +9 more
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Dataset of transcriptome assembly of date palm embryogenic calli and functional annotation

Data in Brief, 2020
Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.; 2n = 36; Arecaceae), cultivated in tropical and sub-tropical regions worldwide, is a staple food for people in the Middle East region and has economic value throughout the world.
S. Naganeeswaran, T.P. Fayas, M.K. Rajesh   +2 more
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The collision of feminisms, sexuality, and trafficking in persons in the Caribbean—A place for Kempadoo

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The existence and development of feminist scholarship and practice have been revisited by feminist anthropologists and sociologists exploring it among the gendered cultural and historical dynamics of the Caribbean. Feminist Caribbeanists’ pioneering efforts that fit within this theoretical family have challenged the Global North status quo to ...
Cherisse Francis
wiley   +1 more source

A simple, quick and contamination-free method for mass-multiplication of plant-beneficial microbes by small and marginal farmers using coconut water and rice gruel medium

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2019
A simple method for mass-multiplication of microbial inoculants is reported which can empower small and marginal farmers, or group of farmers, to mass-multiply by themselves plant-beneficial microbial inoculants of bacterial plant growth promoting ...
MURALI GOPAL, ALKA GUPTA, K SHAHUL HAMEED, R CHANDRAMOHANAN, GEORGE V THOMAS   +4 more
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Yield, Evapotranspiration, Production Functions, Crop Coefficients, Water Productivity and Soil‐Water Extraction of Three Watermelon Varieties

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While watermelon is an important commodity in the United States and worldwide, some of the fundamental watermelon productivity indices (crop evapotranspiration [ETc], transpiration [Tr], evaporation [E], ET‐yield production functions [ETYPF], basal crop coefficients [Kcb], crop water productivity [CWP], soil‐water extraction [SWE]) have not ...
Suat Irmak
wiley   +1 more source

Does the Application Flow Rate of Nutrient Solutions Prepared in Brackish Water Affect Coriander Production?

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flow rates for applying nutrient solutions in hydroponic systems are empirically known, yet uncertainties remain regarding whether brackish water affects the optimal flow rate and, consequently, biomass production and allocation. This study evaluated whether variations in application flow rate affect coriander biomass when brackish water is ...
Raphaela Revorêdo Bezerra, Uriel Calisto Moura Pessoa, Ênio Farias de França e Silva, Tarcísio Ferreira de Oliveira, Thieres George Freire da Silva, Nildo da Silva Dias, José Fernandes Ferreira Junior, José Amilton Santos Júnior   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Workfare and forest cover: The case of NREGS in India

Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the world's largest workfare program, on forest cover as proxied by vegetation density. We estimate null effects on vegetation for the overall sample as well as for the subsample where we are best able to isolate changes in forest cover, but we find ...
Shourish Chakravarty, Conner Mullally, Jared Gars, Monojit Saha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source