Cocoa bean quality is influenced by preharvest and postharvest factors. Rapid evaluation is therefore required to aid in decision-making. In this study, four experiments were performed separately using a completely randomized ...

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a staple in sub-Saharan Africa. It is an important source of starch. Production is, however, constrained by many factors. Forty-three accessions were assessed for morphological and ...

The series of experiments reported in this work considered the possibility of utilising hatchery waste as replacement for fish meal in grower finisher diet. An initial survey in the Greater Accra region estimated that ...

Agricultural production and yields of farms in Ashanti Region are perceived as generally low because most farmers produce crops, using traditional methods or low resource technologies. This situation can be overcome or ...

Three wild stocks of Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus were collected from three different agro-ecological zones in the Volta system in Ghana., A fourth stock of the same species was obtained from a farm at Nsawam. These ...

Radio-sterilization study was conducted on the biology of two lepidopterous maize stem borers, Eldana saccharina Walker and Sesamia calamistis Hampson to induce inherited sterility for insect pest management programme ...

This study aimed at examining the effects of Plan Ghana's VSLA microfinance scheme on beneficiary households' livelihood outcomes in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam and Ekumfi districts in the Central Region, Ghana. The study ...

The agricultural sector in Ghana is characterised by low productivity partly due to declining soil fertility. Governments of Ghana have assisted farmers to use fertilizer to improve the fertility of soils through the ...

The study was conducted to investigate the effect of deficit irrigation on growth and quality of tomato after harvest and during storage. Four treatments (100% ETc, 90% ETc, 80% ETc and 70% ETc) with three replicalions ...

ABSTRACT To explore effective ways to decrease soil CO2 emission and increase soil carbon storage and grain yield, field experiments were conducted on two upland rice soils (Lixisol and Gleyic Luvisol) in northern Benin. ...