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Dissemination of Integrated Soil Fertility Management Practices using Participatory Approaches in the Central Highlands of Kenya
(2011)
Declining soil fertility is a critical agricultural challenge facing smallholders in
central Kenya. A study to improve soil fertility and farm productivity in the area was
carried out during the period 2003 to 2007. ...
Taxonomy and Classification of Insects
(Kenyatta University, 2020)
Classification refers to the arrangement of the kinds of individuals living organisms into groups and the groups into systems called classification.
TAXONOMY: This is the science of identifying, naming and classifying ...
Import Substitution as an Industrial Strategy: The Tanzania Case
(2008-12-04)
1st Five 2nd Five ammonia anhydrite Arusha Declaration backward linkages balance of payments British calcium sulphate capacity capital intensive capitalist cement industry Cement Manufacturers LTD cement plant cement ...
Plant Diseases Caused by Viruses
(Kenyatta University, 2020)
Plant viruses have a huge impact on crop production throughout the world. Consequently, there has been a considerable effort and resources directed towards managing virus diseases. Crop failure due to debilitating viruses ...
Introduction to Crop Protection: Plant Diseases
(Kenyatta University, 2020)
Plants, whether cultivated or wild, grow and produce well as long as the soil provides them with sufficient nutrients and moisture, sufficient light reaches their leaves, and the temperature remains within a certain “normal” ...
Management of Plant Diseases
(Kenyatta University, 2020)
Most serious diseases of crop plants appear on a few plants in an area year after
year, spread rapidly, and are difficult to cure after they have begun to develop. Therefore, almost all control methods are aimed at ...
Integrated pest management training and information flow among smallholder horticulture farmers in Kenya.
(CABI, 2011)
A study was conducted in 5 districts in Kenya (Muranga, Thika and Maragua in Central Province, and Makueni and Embu in Eastern Province) to determine the factors linked to the acquisition of integrated pest management (IPM) ...
Plant Diseases Caused by Fungi
(Kenyatta University, 2020)
Fungi are microscopic organisms that reproduce by means of spores. Only those with cell wall containing chitin are classified as true fungi. Most plant diseases are caused by fungi and most of them tend to become a problem, ...
Role of Wild Crucifers on Parasitoids of Plutella xylostella in Kenya: Wild Crucifers acts as Refugia for DBM Parasitoids
(LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012-05-02)
Indiscriminate use of pesticides contributes to elimination of parasitoid guild and development of pesticide resistance. As part of classical biological control, two parasitoids Diadegma semiclausum and Cotesia plutellae ...
The Orma Boran—ten years of field observations
(Towards Increased Use of Trypanotolerance: Current Research and Future Directions, 1994)
In 1913 Balfour reported Bos indicus cattle in the Koalib area of Sudan which he claimed
were immune to trypanosomiasis (Balfour, 1913). Since that date trypanotolerance has been
reported in other Bos indicus breeds ...