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Development of a cost-benefit analysis approach for water reuse in irrigation
(Science Publishing Group, 2014-10-10)
Water reuse is one of the alternatives to counteract the already experienced water shortages. However water
reuse as any other investment is associated with costs. This article looks at water reuse for irrigation as one ...
Isolation and characterization of nitrogen fixing rhizobia from cultivated and uncultivated soils of northern Tanzania
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-12-18)
Soil bacteria1 called rhizobia are gram-negative capable to colonize the soil immediately surrounding roots under the influence of the plant “rhizosphere” and reduce atmospheric nitrogen into the form available to plants ...
Effect of Rhizobium inoculation and supplementation with phosphorus and potassium on growth and total leaf chlorophyll (Chl) content of bush bean Phaseolus vulgaris, L.
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-12-09)
The study was conducted to investigate the effect of Rhizobium inoculation and supplementation
of phosphorus and potassium on growth and total leaf chlorophyll content to the three released
bush bean varieties in ...
Wastewater treatment for reuse in urban agriculture; the case of Moshi Municipality, Tanzania
(Pergamon, 2014-01-01)
Urban agriculture is practiced by dwellers as an adaptive response to improve their food security, household income, create informal employment and diversify their livelihood through sales of surplus produce or savings. ...
Prospective Bioactive Compounds from Vernonia amygdalina, Lippia javanica, Dysphania ambrosioides and Tithonia diversifolia in Controlling Legume Insect Pests
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-10-22)
Synthetic insecticides are widely known to control insect pest, but due to high operational cost,
environmental pollution, toxicity to humans, harmful effect on non-target organisms and the de velopment of insect resistance ...
Extrapolations on the Use of Rhizobium Inoculants Supplemented with Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K) on Growth and Nutrition of Legumes
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-10-22)
Land scarcity and poor farming management practices has resulted in to intensive agriculture which rendered most of the soil in sub Saharan Africa depleted in essential plant nutrients. High prices of chemical fertilizer ...
Anaerobic digestion of banana winery effluent for biogas production
(International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy, 2014-09-30)
he efficiency of banana winery effluent (BWE) in biogas production through improving fermentation process
was investigated in this study. The study was conducted in a batch system under mesophilic temperature of 35oC ...