Re-vegetation of cover soils and coal discard material ameliorated with Class F fly ash

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Introduction Agricultural and industrial activities have greatly accelerated the pace of soil degradation. The mining industry plays a major role in the South African economy, and can often contribute to certain environmental challenges,...

Alternative hosts and seed transmissibility of Soybean blotchy mosaic virus

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Preface Glycine max (Fabaceae, Phaseoleae) is a nutritious, annual leguminous plant species native to East Asia. Soybean, or Greater bean as it is sometimes known, was used as a source of protein and...

Selected methods of preparing and processing stinging nettle leaves

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » INTRODUCTION Stinging nettle, Urtica dioica L., is an undervalued wild green vegetable (Khatiwada et al., 2011) distinguished by stinging hairs (Kavalali, 2003; Moskovitz, 2009). The plant require less care and is drought tolerant...

MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT AND POTENTIAL ROLE IN MILK SAFETY

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » GENERAL INTRODUCTION The South African (SA) dairy industry is characterised by the primary sector (dealing with milk production at farms) and the secondary sector (consisting of milk processors). Within the secondary sector, a...

A REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES IN NIGERIA

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The Concept of Efficiency and Frontier Models In microeconomic theory a production function is defined in terms of the maximum output that can be produced from a specified set of inputs, given the...

Research into methods for measuring sorghum and maize hardness

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Sorghum and maize kernel structures The structure and chemistry of a kernel play a crucial role in determining the processing properties of a cereal grain. According to Kent and Evers (1994), the kernel...

Waxy (high amylopectin) and high protein digestibility (HD) traits

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » INTRODUCTION The biggest challenge as a result of climate change in Africa and other regions of the world is food insecurity (Brown et al., 2007). Drought will be one of the major impacts...

Soil Conservation and the Politics of Transition: Settler Agriculture under Responsible Government, c. 1924-34

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Introduction Current discourses on sustainable agriculture (encapsulating issues such as the advantages of organic and conservation farming, action research such as participatory agrarian technology development and adaptive collaborative management, to name a few)1,...

Percent water absorption: A simple method for estimation of sorghum grain hardness

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! »  INTRODUCTION Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is the fifth most important cereal crop in the world after wheat, rice, maize and barley in terms of production (FAO 2011). It is primarily used as...

OUTPUTS, INPUTS AND THE STRUCTURE OF AGRICULTURE

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » INTRODUCTION With the democratization of South Africa in 1994 and the introduction of land reform and farmer settlement programs to redress past injustices, the issue of finding appropriate support structures and service delivery...