A system comparison (SysCom) program was setup under long-term experiment (LTE) trials to address declining farm productivity due to farm infertilities. The farming systems compared since 2007 were on conventional (Conv) ...

Coffee is the most valued commodity among the stimulant crops. Its production is important in over 80 increasing countries including Burundi, for which it is the key foreign currency earner. The present study sought to ...

Low amount of ingested fluoride is important for prevention of dental caries. However, ingestion of high levels of fluoride may lead to disease conditions that adversely affect the skeleton. Aluminium is not known to be ...

African eggplants and tomatoes are among the most economically important and valuable vegetable fruit crops which have played an important historical role in the traditional diets in Africa. Their nutritional quality and ...

The Nyando River Basin experiences highly variable weather patterns which pose a challenge to water resources availability and distribution. There is need to store flood water for use during drought especially for irrigation. ...

Cassava is an important food crop in sub-Saharan Africa. More than a third of the region’s potential cassava harvest is continuously lost to pest and diseases. The most important of these are the cassava viruses: cassava ...

Weed management constitutes a major operation and cost in maize production. Three field experiments were conducted in the arable cropping fields of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Juja, Kenya ...

Demand for baobab fruits and baobab-derived foods has recently surged as a result of a growing ready market both locally and internationally, especially after both the European Union and the United Nations approved it as ...

Root-Knot Nematodes (RKNs) are major economically important group of plant parasitic nematodes distributed worldwide. RKNs cause over $100 billion yield losses annually on major crops. The damage caused to crops is due to ...

Despite the vast research on trichome-based resistance as well as plant chemical factors in plant-herbivore interactions in Solanaceous plants, little or no information is available on the association between Tetranychus ...