Smallholder agriculture is facing a myriad of challenges in the wake of a changing climate. To counter this, several measures have been suggested in attempts to reduce the vulnerability of smallholder farmers who are the ...

Castration is a controversial practice in swine production because in some countries is still performed without anaesthesia, and therefore causes intense suffering and stress to animals. This study investigated the effect ...

The effects were investigated of different feeding frequenciesdone meal at 0600 h, two meals (at either 0600 h and 1200 h or 0600 h and 1800 h) and three meals daily (at 0600 h, 1200 h and 1800 h)don the growth performance, ...

The paper is an attempt to address the advantages and risks connected with the wave of financial globalisation, with a focus on its impact on financial policy in European agriculture. The aim of the paper is to identify ...

The paper presents an analysis of the shadow prices of the greenhouse gas emissions in the Czech dairy production industry. There is employed the stochastic frontier multiple output distance function with two market outputs ...

Extractions were performed of the total phenolic and flavonoid contents and antioxidant properties of five edible mushroom samplesdLentinus edodes, Volvariella volvacea, Pleurotus eous, Pleurotus sajor-caju and Auricularia ...

Majority of the rural households in Kenya depend on agriculture as a source of food and livelihood. Agricultural productivity has been declining due to many factors resulting in increased food insecurity in the country. ...

In the search for alternatives to sawdust as growing media in commercialmushroomcultivation, three organic substrates obtainable as crop residue, maize husk, maize cob, and maize stalk, with each being supplemented with ...

Tomato production has increased in recent years due to the economic and nutritional importance of the crop. This increase is made possible by the numerous research advances made along the entire value chain. However, ...

In this paper, a feed ration problem is presented as a mixed integer programming problem. An attempt to find the optimal quantities of Moringa oleifera inclusion into the poultry feed ration was done and the problem was ...