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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 ...
Effects of Rhizobium inoculation and Supplementation with P and K, on Growth, Leaf chlorophyll content and Nitrogen Fixation of Bush bean varieties
(American Journal of Research Communication, 2014)
Low crop productivity is a general problem facing most farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA). These low yields are pronounced in grain legumes and are often associated with declining
soil fertility and reduced ...
Preparation of activated carbon with disered properties through optimization of impregnating agent
(Rjeas, 2014)
In this study, activated carbon with desired properties was prepared from peanut shell and sugarcane bagasse using
chemical activation method in which potassium hydroxide (KOH) was used as a impregnating agent. The ...
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 ...
Influence of Macrophyte Types towards Agrochemical Phytoremediation in a Tropical Environment
(International Journal of Engineering Research and General Science, 2014-09)
The presence of agrochemicals waste water from agricultural fields poses major environmental and human health problems which may be solved by phytoremediation technologies. Phytoremediation is the use of plants to remediate ...
The influence of stereochemistry of the active compounds on fluoride adsorption efficiency of the plant biomass
(Science Publishing Group, 2014-08-20)
Several studies have reported various defluoridation capabilities of plant biomasses. The resultant variations in
fluoride removal capacities are associated with the presence of different types of active functional groups ...
Potentials of agric wastes activated carbons for water softening
(Research Journal in Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2014)
Various studies have been conducted to address softening of hard water. Ion exchange, electro-based techniques,
membrane filtration and adsorption are the most reported techniques in softening hard water. In the present
work, ...
Effect of Glass Thickness on Performance of Flat Plate Solar Collectors for Fruits Drying
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)
This study aimed at investigating the effect of thickness of glazing material on the performance of flat plate solar collectors. Performance of solar collector is affected by glaze transmittance, absorptance, and reflectance ...