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Alternative Hosts of Yellow Dwarf Viruses (YDVs) and Sources of Resistance in Barley in Ethiopia
Diseases are key biotic constraints facing barley production in many countries. One of the key
diseases group is yellow dwarf viruses (YDVs). Alternative hosts play an important role in the
epidemiology of YDVs. Studies ...
Effects of feeding different varieties of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) straws with concentrate supplement on feed intake, digestibility, body weight gain and carcass characteristics of Arsi-Bale sheep
Objective: A study was conducted to evaluate the varietal differences among faba bean straws
and also to assess the potentials of faba bean straws supplemented with concentrate fed at
the rate 70% straws and 30% concentrate ...
Meta-analysis of average estimates of genetic parameters for growth, reproduction and milk production traits in goats
A meta-analysis of 84 published reports on goats was conducted to calculate weighted and unweighted average direct heritability (ha2), maternal genetic effect (hm2), common environmental effect (c2), repeatability (R), ...
Non-cultivated grass hosts of yellow dwarf viruses in Ethiopia and their epidemiological consequences on cultivated cereals
The yellow dwarf (YD) disease complex epidemics in cultivated cereals grown in a specific period of the year mainly depend on the presence of potential reservoir alternative hosts harbouring both the viruses and the vectors ...
Optimal Scales of Neighbourhood Effects on Landuse Change: An Analysis Procedure Applied in an Alpine Mountainous Region
Neighbourhood effects on land use change are very common. Therefore, they are often
included in spatially explicit models of land use change and other spatial analyses. Neighbourhood
indices, however, depend strongly on ...
Modelling activities in peanut/chickpea (paper writing)
The SSM-legume model of Soltani and Sinclair (2011) was used in this study. It was used here to test the validity of Marksim-generated weather data, to assess the extent of yield reductions caused by water deficit, and ...
Restoration of Degraded Lands in Mali: a review on lessons learnt and opportunities for scaling
The rapid growing population and the need of economic development is leading to a number of environmental issues, notably forest and degradation of land, resource depletion (water, mineral, forest), environmental degradation, ...
Desert land reclamation programs and family land dynamics in the Western Desert of the Nile Delta (Egypt), 1960–2010
The agricultural development on newly reclaimed lands has led to many national debates about food
security and budget deficits, and the living conditions of the new settlers at the local level. This debate
is still crucial ...
Stakeholders at the international wheat conference in Abuja loud recent successes in the wheat sector, pledge more support
Stakeholders attending the International Conference on Wheat in Abuja, Nigeria lauded the recent successes in reducing wheat importation to Africa and have pledged more support. The stakeholders spoke during the conference ...
Rice Fallow Systems for Pulse Crops Bangladesh India Nepal - Year 2 AWPB Sept. 2017 - Aug. 2018
The overall goals is to establish a sustainable integrated pulse production system in rice fallows to enhance pulse production
and farm income directly of nearly 15,000 farmers in India, Nepal and Bangladesh resulting ...