Most of the emissions associated with rice production are related to water management  and nitrogen fertilisers .Water and straw management related practices are the most effective in reducing emissions from paddy fields.Methane emissions depend on the combination of flooded and dry periods in the field, the management of straw and organic matter and the duration…

These sections were selected based on the dominant practice of upland rice farming. The natural vegetation in these communities consists of secondary forest or farm bush with small trees or shrubs as a result of frequent felling of trees for farming. In each Section, a list of farmers practising slash-and-burn agriculture on the uplands was…

Tuber crops while cabbage,wild brassica/cabbage , garlic, shallot, onion are among the important home garden grown horticultural crops along with sugarcane, green chilli and capsicum. Only during recent years, many women folks also adopting growing wild/semi wild herbal spices in their home gardens for marketing. Other important component in the traditional system gaining importance during…

In West Gojam, the coefficients for both local and high grade crossbreds were higher for the urban system than for the rural and peri-urban systems.The analysis model correctly classified 50.6% and 38.7% of the 180 sampled farms in each of West Shoa and West Gojam zones, respectively, into rural, periurbanand urban dairy farming systems. The…

Transgenic mitigation through linking the transgene to genes that confer a selective disadvantage such as a dwarfing mitigatorgene, or other mechanisms like cleistogamy in rice, total sterility in tubers and bulb-propagated crops, synthetic auxotrophy etc. could contain gene flow.Low-cost technologies for the production of biopharmaceuticals using plant systems should be used in cases of unprecedented…

However, for edible vaccines,fruit crops are preferred since they can be consumed directly without cooking,else heat during cooking may destroy the protein antigen. Many plant species including maize, carrot, tomato, soybean, lettuce, potato, and alfalfa are used now, since they offer better yields with no toxic compounds, making possible oral immunization using raw plant materials.…

The level of significance for the tests was set at 0.05. The study set out to determine the means by which rural fisher folk and farming communities in Uganda gained access to early warning meteorological information.It was noted that 55.33% of the survey respondents were receiving weather information predominantly from the FM radio stations despite…

The yield response to changes in precipitation variability can depend on the qualitative nature of the variability and it is used to understand the impacts of climate changes. The results also suggest that the current atmospheric general circulation models yield inconsistent results concerning changes in mean precipitation at particular locations, and the sign and magnitude…

Whether it is in water or on land, the same nutrients for plant growth are essential. After all, plants rely on specific nutrients to grow, and these nutrients don’t change, no matter which system one is using. In VHF method, manageability of the farm is quite obvious; the area requires no care takers considering the…

Strong connections between the leaf photosynthetic capacity and reflectance spectra have been reported, although their underlying mechanisms remain unclear in most cases. A range of studies have also demonstrated that leaf reflectance spectra can be used to accurately estimate leaf photosynthetic capacity in several different ways, ranging fromsimple linear regression to machine learning techniques ,…