AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 181. Cocoyam Marketing in South East Nigeria

  » ABSTRACT Cocoyam is highly perishable and considerable economic losses occur after it is harvested. This is as a result of rot, sprouting and other physiological changes. These losses could be reduced through efficient storage, processing and marketing. This study is about economic study of cocoyam marketing in south east Nigeria. It specifically ranked market participants preference for cocoyam c...Continue Reading »

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• 182. The study was designed to analyze the marketing of banana and plantain in Enugu ...

  » ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to analyze resource productivity in ornamental plants production within Jos metropolis of Nigeria. The study covered Jos North and Jos South local government areas. The specific objectives include: identifying the effect of socio economic factors on resource productivity, determining costs and returns, and resource productivity in ornamental plants production. An...Continue Reading »

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• 183. FLOODING HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENTAL

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION In Anambra State, most inhabitants survive through Agriculture and their main occupation is subsistence farming which attracted the interest of many co operative societies both the old and new ones. Improving the Agricultural production was their main target and at the same time lifting the level of it size and qualities. Most of the crop couldn’t grow well in or...Continue Reading »

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• 184. EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITIES AND DOMESTIC WASTE ON SURF...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Water is essential for life. Man needs water for various other purposes apart from drinking and body functions. The other purposes includes its use in transportation, waste disposal and hydro electric system. About 80% of the earth’s surface is covered by water. This may be grouped into natural and artificial water. Natural water inclu...Continue Reading »

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• 185. PRODUCTION OF JAM USING BANANA AND ITS NUTRITIVE VALUE

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 ORIGIN, HISTORY OF CULTIVAT OF BANA (Musa Nagensium) Edible Musa spp. Originated in south eastern Asia from the India east and south to northern Australia. Early Filipinos probably spread banana east word to the pacific Island, includes Hawaii, prior to recorded history. Westward, banana like followed the major trade routes that transported other fruits and it’s known to have...Continue Reading »

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• 186. EFFECT OF STORAGE TIME ON THE FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF WHEAT/BAMBKA GROUNDNUT BL...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Despite many years of investigation, it has not been possible to determine accurately when and where the first cultivated wheat originated. At the beginning of recorded history, wheat was already an established crop whose origin was unknown (Anon 1953). There is however some evidence that cultivation of wheat started about 6,000 years ago in the 5yria – Palestine...Continue Reading »

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• 187. THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT PROCESS IN TECHNIQUES ON THE ORGANOLEPTIC QUALITY OF SO...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION His of Soymilk: Soybeans belongs to the family leguminous, subfamily papiliondase and the genus Glycine Max. (Ricker and Morse, 1984), other normendatures which have been used include phaseolus Max, Soja Max Piper and Soja hispide moech. It is not known when this remarkable legume, soybean was first cultivated in China. However as the first legume of which a written re...Continue Reading »

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• 188. MARGARINE PRODUCTION USING OIL BLENDS FROM PALM KERNEL, COCONUT AND MELON

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Margarine, a butter substitute made originally from other animal fats, but nowadays exclusively from vegetable oils, like homogenization and pasteurization is a reach innovation. Margarine is made from water in oil emulsion because margarine is oil emulsion. Today it is a manufactured imitation of butter made by mixing a variety of fats that may include whale oil or vegeta...Continue Reading »

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• 189. AN INVESTIGATION ON THE EFFECT OF VARIOUS PACKAGING MATERIAL ON THE QUALITY ATTR...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Meat is a flesh of animals consumed for foods. In the topics, the bulk of the meat consumed is derived from cow, sheep, cattle, pigs, camel etc. The other aspect of a dead animal such as the offal’s (kidney, liver, intestine etc) and the skin are often consumed, but one not termed meat; which ever part of it is meat is usually consumed for its high quality protei...Continue Reading »

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• 190. THE PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES OF CULINARY HERBS AND LOCAL SPIES

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Herbs and spices have long been used by ancient civilizations for culinary, medicinal and cosmetic uses. With modernization and the development of patent medicines, the use of natural cures and elixirs decrease in popularity. Nowadays, disillusionment with synthetic drugs, artificial additives and their possible sides effects has given great rise in popularity to many ...Continue Reading »

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• 191. EFFECT OF PROCESSING ON AFZELIA AFRICANA AKPALATA AND BRACHYSTEGIA SPP FLOUR AS ...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Nigeria is presently passing through a developmental stage in which there is showing emphasis on local sourcing of raw materials and so there is a growing commercial interest in processing Nigerian foods. The mechanism by which culinary products are thickened to varying degrees can be subdivided into three separate processing such as starch thickening, protein coagulat...Continue Reading »

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• 192. PRODUCTION OF “OGIRI” FROM SOYA BEAN USING MICRO ORGANISM RESPONSIBLE FOR FE...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION “Ogiri” is a local condiment inform of oily paste with strong putrial and ammoniacal odour made from some fermentation vegetable proteins (oil seeds). It is a popular soup condiment in many parts of Nigeria particularly in Enugu Anambra, Imo,Ondo River states, Benue plateau states. “Ogiri” can be in various form such as solid, semi solid (paste) dep...Continue Reading »

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• 193. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF RAW AND COOKED WALNUT

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Nut crops such as walnut (juglas Nigra) and pecans (carya illinoenosis) have potential for small parts of Virginia. Growing and handling are specialized, and while marketing is hands oriented, demand can be good For fresh high quality nuts used both for eating out of hands and for cooking purposes (Carlson Jones 1940) there are many different edible net species found a...Continue Reading »

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• 194. EVALUATION OF THE CHEMICAL COMPONENT OF DOGOYARO LIQUID (AZADIRACHTA INDICA) FOR...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Malaria infections are characterized by defective immune responses with poor efficacy against infection, and in some cases, with immunopathology. Severe malaria is a complex multisystem disorder. Complications such as cerebral malaria, anemia, acidosis, jaundice, respiratory distress, renal insufficiency, coagulation anomalies and hyperparasitemia can occur in severe malar...Continue Reading »

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• 195. LAND TENURE SYSTEM AT MGBID

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION The majority of people on earth are now living in cities and towns. By 2030, over 4.6 billion people will live in urban areas (Wish 2009). For this urban population, access to secure shelter is a precondition for access to other benefits such as livelihood opportunities, public services and credit (Payne 2002). Tenure therefore forms the foundation on which any effort ...Continue Reading »

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• 196. THE ANTI-NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION OF OKRA SEEDS FLOUR AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF MATU...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Okra (Abelmoschus. esculentus) is one of the important vegetable with tremendous nutritional values. To meet demand for nutritionally balanced food for the world’s increasing population and relieve the intense pressure, plant species used as food must be diversified (Hughes, 2001). Inclusion of a wide array of indigenous vegetables species in cereals, tubers and live...Continue Reading »

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• 197. THE EFFECTS OF CATTLE RUSTLING ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NI...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Cattle rustling have recently become a major internal security concern in Nigeria, with the country’s northern region as the epicenter. Reports of bandits with automatic weapons storming herders’ settlements and farms with the mission of killing people and pillaging cows proliferate (Yusuf, 2015). According to Adeniyi (2015) between ...Continue Reading »

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• 198. PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND HEAVY METAL ANALYSIS OF SOIL SAMPLES FROM SELECTED RURAL AND...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Soil is a naturally occurring body consisting of different layers known as soil horizons, which differ from the parent materials in their morphology, physical, chemical, and mineralogical characteristics (Stutz, et al 1986). Soil gives plants a place to sink their roots and anchor themselves. It is also a community with billions of organisms...Continue Reading »

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• 199. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF MILLET-BASED CROPPING SYSTEMS

  » Abstract This study examined the economics of millet based cropping systems in Bindawa and Charanchi LGAS, Katsina state. The specific objectives were to identify and describe the millet based cropping systems; determine the inputs and output levels; determine the production functions; determine the resource use efficiencies; determine the costs and returns; and identify and describe the constrain...Continue Reading »

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• 200. ESTIMATION OF GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG SOME POULTRY SPECIES USING CYTOCHROME ...

  » Abstract This thesis observed evolutionary relationships, compare the effectiveness of mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome oxidase b gene) among some species of poultry, 30 birds per breeds or species (Rhode Island Red, Rhode Island White, Shikabrown, Francolins, Guinea Fowls and Japanese Quails) using mitochondrial DNAs cytochrome b oxidase gene and chicken micro satellite markers. It has also evaluate...Continue Reading »

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