Over dependence on insecticides for the control of diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella
xylostella (L ) has resulted in development of resistant strains and health hazards due to toxic
residues in cabbage. The present study ...
The study focused on malaria care seeking behaviour of farm households in general. Time and money costs of care, the impact of socio-economic factors affecting health care seeking behaviour and
household choice of malaria ...
The use of recommended agricultural practices such as the safe adoption of pesticides is influenced by several factors as identified in the evaluative frame of reference. These factors have often led to the existing gap ...
Studies were carried out on the reaction o f some oil palm tenera progenies to
Fusarium oxysporum f sp elaeidis (FOFSE) isolates isolated from the Crops Research
Institute and Oil Palm Research Institute plantations, in ...
Pot and field studies were carried out at the University o f Ghana, Legon, to evaluate
the effect of Bradyrhizobium japonicum inoculation and five rates of phosphorus
application on growth, nodulation and dry matter ...
Experiments on mulching, temperature, storage end inter-row
spacing were conducted in the fie ld and laboratory during the major
and minor seasons o f 1973* with 21 introduced soybean varieties
including H ill, Kent, ...
A survey was carried out in November, 1997 in Accra to obtain basic
information on the post-harvest handling and deterioration of cocoyam cormels
from retailers and consumers. Studies were also undertaken between ...
A study was conducted to determine the effects of different growth media and different poly bag sizes on the growth of cocoa seedlings in the nursery. The experimental design was split plot design with three replicates. ...
Several sweet potato cultivars and advanced breeding lines
were screened in both the greenhouse and a heavily nematode infested
field for resistance to root-knot nematode species
(Meloidogyne incognita and Meloidogvne ...
The main objective of this study is to assess the causes of labour migration, low food
crop production and remittance linkages on the livelihood of rural households in the
Kpando District. The researcher used survey ...
Prevalence and antibiotic resistance (ABR) profiles of selected food borne pathogens in retailed fresh chicken, sold in the Accra Metropolis, were investigated. Fifty (50) fresh whole chicken carcasses, purchased from ...
Though it is government policy to modernize the agricultural sector and make it a catalyst for rural transformation making Ghana an agro-industrialized country, very few students pursue agricultural programme as compared ...
The continuous extraction of shea resources from the natural plantation over the years without any significant conservation management measures has compounded the deforestation of the natural shea vegetation, leading to ...
The study was conducted to analyse production risk and technical efficiency of lowland rice farms in Ashanti region using adjusted stochastic production frontier. Cross sectional data for 2014 cropping season was collected ...
Vegetable production is one of the economic activities of farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana. It is an income generating activity from which most farmers meet their livelihood outcomes. Despite the fact that some of ...
An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of plasma concentrations of the metabolic hormones [Growth hormone (GH), insulin and insulin-like growth factor –I (IGFI)] and nutritional metabolites (glucose, ...
Several strategies such as chemical treatment and supplementation have been used in an
attempt to improve the quality of rice straw as a feed for livestock. Protein and energy
supplementation has been shown to improve ...
Prevalence and antibiotic resistance (ABR) profiles of selected food borne pathogens in retailed fresh chicken, sold in the Accra Metropolis, were investigated. Fifty (50) fresh whole chicken carcasses, purchased from ...
Xylopia aethiopica (African pepper) and Monodora myristica (African nutmeg) are used as spices in Ghanaian local dishes and as traditional medicine. The objective of this study was to substitute two spices in “normal” fresh ...