» ABSTRACT Cheese, a popular food across many cultures has been subject of many studies. It’s of many variants, providing huge nutritional value to humans. One of those many nutrients is calcium. Calcium helps the body in building bone structures amongst other important functions. In this study, we …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The term Agricultureâ has been subjected to different definitions by various experts. As a result Ighodo (1984: 20) defined agriculture as the art and science of the cultivation of crops and rearing of animals for man’s use. He also emphasized that agricultur…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT Poultry production has in no small way helped to develop the community and people of Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, mostly in Idogbo the local government headquarters. This study however, examined the prospects and equally analysed the problems and finally came to a conclusion that with…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Conservation practices all over the world are changing from the traditional management approach with emphasis on managing natural resources in a way that ensures greater flow to all stakeholders especially local communities. The shift in emphasis …Continue Reading »
» Dedication iii Acknowledgements iii Foreword vi Executive summary vii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Understanding rural transformation 2 1.2 Bioenergy and rural development 3 2 Agriculture and development in Sierra Leone 6 2.1 Agriculture, inclusive growth, and economic diversification 6 2.2 Boosting the pr…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This project work is designed to find out appraisal of problems and prospect of peasant farming in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State. During the study, data was collected through the use of questionnaire and oral interview. Questionnaires were distributed. In this, to examine th…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This project work centered on the economic analysis of snail production in Uhunmwode Local Government Area, Edo State and how snail production have been more effective and efficient in productivities activities within and outside the Uhunmwode Community in Edo State. Chapter one will focus …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This abstract is basically concerned to ascertain “The Role of mass media in disseminating Agricultural information to cassava and plantain farmers in Ovia North East Local Government Area. It also analyses the problems of mass media to cassava and plantain farmer’s recommendati…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This research was carried out in order to assess the causes and effects of deforestation in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State. the researcher collected his information by distributing questionnaire to the people living in Ovia North East Local government Area in Edo State a…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This project work was designed to examine and analyze the factors affecting the processing production and storage of garri in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. Five research questions were formulated and questionnaires were administered to hundred respondents in Oredo to determine t…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This study was specially designed to find the problems and prospects of maize production in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State. In carrying out this study, the respondents were made up to farmers. A total sample size of fifty respondents were interviewed with the aid of question…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate problem and prospect of pig farming in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State four research questions formulated and analyzed. The respondents were made up of pig farmers Ovia North East Local Government Area. All the respondents were…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Human activities exert tremendous effects on land cover through a variety of land uses. Human use of land has altered the structure and functioning of the ecosystem (Turner et al., 1994). Land, whether in tropical or temperate regions land is being us…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Information Nigeria has been an agricultural economy since the colonial period up to the 1970s when we witnessed the oil boom. The agricultural sector contributed over 60% to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (National Technical Working Group (NTWG), …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Financing formal education in Nigeria has become an issue of public concern as a result of the present economic down turn and worldwide inflation. According to Central Bank of Nigeria (2003), poor financing has been the bane of Nigerian education …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Shifting cultivation in general, is a system of farming in which fields are prepared by cutting down the natural vegetations. Letting it dry and burning it off. This technique serves to clear the field and enrich the soil with nutrients from …Continue Reading »
» TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover Page – – – – – – – – – – Title Page – – – – – – – – – – Certification – – – – – – – – – – Dedica…Continue Reading »
