AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 41. INFLUENCE OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOOD PRODUCTION IN ...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Agriculture, from the beginning of time, the first concern of man has been food clothing and shelter in that order. Agriculture being one of the oldest industries, its origin can be traced to the earliest human societies. The existence of man from the prehistoric era up to the era ancient civilization depended on the ability of the individual to...Continue Reading »

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• 42. AGRICULTURE FINANCING IN NIGERIA PROBLEMS AND PROSPECT.;

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM. The problem of low productivity and lack of improvement in agriculture has been traced to various causal factors. One of such course is the lack of adequate finance to the agriculture’s. They complain that they do not have enough fund to carry on with their activities. We want to investigate the reasons why these formers find it difficult t...Continue Reading »

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• 43. THE USE OF BITTERLEAF (VERNONIA AMYGDALINA) EXTRACT AS A MEANS OF EXTENDING THE ...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION The word beer derives from the Latin word bibere meaning to drink (Okafor, 2007). Beer is the world’s oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverage and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. Grossman (1995) defined beer as a general name given to beverages resulting from the germination of a malt or cereal grain. The process of brewing bee...Continue Reading »

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• 44. THE EFTHERMAL CONVERSION OF PALM KERNEL SHELL AND MESOCARP FRUIT FIBRE INTO FUEL...

  » ABSTRACT Palm Oil processing yields a considerable quantity of palm kernel shell (PKS) and mesocarp fruit fiber (MFF). This has been predominantly used as fuel through direct combustion which is inefficient and polluting. Better grade fuel could be derived through torrefaction. The objectives of the work therefore was to determine the optimum parameters for the conversion of palm kernel shell (PKS...Continue Reading »

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• 45. WOMEN LABOUR UTILIZATION IN CROP PRODUCTION IN ABIA STATE, NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Nigeria at the moment is witnessing an upward trend in the price of foodstuffs partly due to the inability of production to keep pace with increase in demand. Demand itself increases largely as a result of increase in population. The resulting effect of this imbalance between demand for and supply of food is malnutrition, poverty and deterioratin...Continue Reading »

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• 46. THE IMPORTANCE OF FISH PRODUCTION AND ITS MARKETING VALUE;

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Although there are thousand of years of experience supporting aquaculture in and other countries, it is relatively young industry in the United States. It is also one of the fastest growing segments of animae agriculture. Aquaculture output has grown at a rate of more than 10% for captured fishers and 3% for livestock meat production (FAO, 2000) while only 13 million tons ...Continue Reading »

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• 47. THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA;

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF INFORMATION Agriculture is still most important sector of the country’s economy. It’s role in economic development can be traced back to, at least to the mid eighteenth century, and which was central to the early development of the analytical economics by Adam Smith, David Richardo, and Thomas Malthius, typically some 40 to 60 percent of the n...Continue Reading »

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• 48. THE STRATEGIES FOR INVOLVING RURAL FARMERS IN AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY CONSERVA...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTROUCTION The conservation of biodiversity is one aspect of environment, which has recently receivedglobal attention. Biodiversity refers to the variety and variability among living organisms andthe ecological complexes in which they occur (Board on Science and Technology forInternational Development (BOSTID), 2002. It is a term used to describe the degree ofnature’s variety in...Continue Reading »

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• 49. FACTORS INFLUENCING ADOPTION OF AGRONOMIC PRACTICE OF NERICA RICE PRODUCTION

  » CHAPTER ONE I NTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Rice is regarded as one of the most important cereal grains in many regions of the world and reported to be the most cultivated crop and consumed for more than 10,000 years ago all over the world (World Bank 2001). Total land area under rice cultivation globally was estimated at 150,000,000 hectares with annual mean production of 500,000,000 me...Continue Reading »

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• 50. EFFECT OF PARENT BODY WEIGHT ON EGG SIZE AND EGG NUMBER OF AFRICAN LAND SNAIL (A...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Snails are invertebrates (without bone), shell bearing animals that are passive or inactive during the day but, very active in the night, at dusk or when it rains and usually find in a cool place. Snail is a terrestrial animal of approximately 100,000 species of molluscs, of the phylum Mollusca, or alternately, any of the twelve species of land ...Continue Reading »

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• 51. TRANSPORTATION CONSTRAINTS ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY.

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Road conditions are an important factor in determining transport costs and prices. Hine and Ellis (2001) in comparing transport price to road roughness in Nigeria, illustrated that transport price was twice as high on a poor quality earth road in comparison to transport price on a good quality gravel road. A survey conducted in Nigeria found tha...Continue Reading »

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• 52. AN IN-VITRO STUDY OF SOME SPICES FOR REDUCING METHANOGENESIS IN RUMINANTS

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0INTRODUCTION Livestock is one of the longest sources of methane emission with 80 – 115 million tons produced per year, equivalent to 15 – 20% of total anthropogenic methane (IPCC, 2001). Ruminants are major contributors to biogenic methane formation. It has been estimated that preventing methane formation from ruminants would stabilized atmospheric methane concentrations...Continue Reading »

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• 53. DIURNAL VARIATION IN SOIL EC AND PH OF CULTIVATED FARMLAND ON A FARM FIELD

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF STUDY Soil formation overlandscape along with management led to soil changes (e.g increased erosion, tillage, topography, lime, fertilization and weathering) result in soil variation within crop fields that affects the productivity of the soil. A soil characteristic often causing variability in crop production and conductivity is soil water storage for plant ...Continue Reading »

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• 54. BACTERIA THAT LEAD TO THE REDUCTION OF THE SHELF LIFE OF HARVESTED TOMATOES CAUS...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Tomato (Solano lycopersicum L.) is a berry annual, short–lived herbaceous plant of the solanaceae family. It is a flag ship species that belongs to the genus of lycopersicon which includes more than 3,000 species with chromosome number of 24; it usually sprawls on the ground, and could reach about 1 5m height (Wogu and Ofuase, 2014). It has a weak woody stem cove...Continue Reading »

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• 55. ASSESSMENT OF CONTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES TO FOOD PRODUCT...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of study There is a growing advocacy for achieving sustainable food production in today’s Nigeria and a lot of effort has been directed at finding appropriate structure for organizing millions of small scale farmers towards achieving sustainable food production (Oyido, 1997). Agricultural cooperative society has been touted as the appropriate vehicle f...Continue Reading »

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• 56. AGRICULTURE FINANCING IN NIGERIA (PROBLEMS AND PROSPECT)

  » ABSTRACT The study focused on increasing customer traffic through public Relations: a case study of first Bank PLC Enugu. The objective of the study among others include: to determine the impact of Public Relations on increasing costumer traffic to know how Public Relations helped in improving communications between organization and its Public to find out if Public Relations activities of First Ba...Continue Reading »

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• 57. INVESTIGATION ON THE INFLUENCE/PREVALENCE OF POULTRY DISEASE AND IT’S MORTALIT...

  » CHAPTER ON INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Agriculture in Nigeria has remained the largest sector contributing nearly 39% to the gross domestic product for the past two decades and employing nearly 60% of its workforce. Over 80% of the country’s population in the rural areas is directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture for its livelihood (NBC,2005). The Nigeria livestock resources...Continue Reading »

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• 58. INVESTIGATION OF THE PREVALENCE RATE OF POULTRY DISEASE AND IT’S MORTALITY RAT...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Agriculture in Nigeria has remained the largest sector contributing nearly 39% to the gross domestic product for the past two decades and employing nearly 60% of its workforce. Over 80% of the country’s population in the rural areas is directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture for its livelihood (NBC,2005). The Nigeria livestock resource...Continue Reading »

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• 59. IMPROVING MARKETING OF PERISHABLE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION This project present an overview of marketing perishable products in Nigeria and their relative improvement which much on our economy and much emphasis laid on Odeda local government Area of Ogun State . The Importance of perishable product in the Economic sector become clearer when one realized its sustained contribution to the to the gross domestic product and its su...Continue Reading »

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• 60. IMPACT OF COMMERCIAL BANKS CREDIT FACILITY TO AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN NIGERIA (A ...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION IMPACT OF COMMERCIAL BANKS CREDIT FACILITY TO AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN NIGERIA 1.1 Background of the Study According to CBN (2000), Nigeria is endowed with huge expanse of fertile land, rivers, streams, lakes, forests and grasslands, as well as a large active population that can sustain highly productive and profitable agricultural sector which can ensure self sufficiency in...Continue Reading »

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