Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Title
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A study of the workplace environment with respect to aspects of safety and occupational health in a sugar processing plant: the case for Mumias sugar company, Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Agricultural Engineering, 1997)A study was undertaken at Mumias Sugar Company to establish the status of the workplace environment with respect to some aspects of Safety and Occupational health in a Sugar Processing Plant between December, 1996 and ... -
A study of water use efficiency in field crops of Maize and beans
(College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1970-05)Crop water use efficiency nay be defined aa the ratio of total dyy matter produced to total evaporation from the orop and the aoil. In Bast Africa, the areas of high photosynthetic potential (highest number of sunshine ... -
A Study of Women's Access to Agricultural Production Inputs in Murang'a District, Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Agricultural Economics, 1988)This study looks at women's access to agricultural production inputs in the small scale sector. Field work was carried out in Murang'a District. It was postulated, ali a basis for research, that among the factors causing ... -
Study on drought resistance in pigeon peas (cajanus cajan l. Hillsp)
(Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nairobi, 1980)Two experiments were conducted over two seasons. The f'irst "'experiment (Experiment I) ran from October 1979 to March, 1980 while the second experiment (Experiment II), which was a repeat ot experiment I,'was conducted ... -
A study on drought resistance in pigeon peas (Cajanus cajan L.Millsp.)
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A study on morphology, floral biology and fertility of interspecific hybrids of coffea arabica l.and coffea canephora pierre ex froehner. including backcrosses of the hybrid to c. arabica
(Plant Science & Crop Protection, University of Nairobi, 1979)A breeding programme is in progress at the Coffee Research Station. Ruiru with a main objective being to develop Coffea arabica cultivars resistant to coffee berry disease caused by Colletotrichum coffeanum Noack and ... -
Study on outliers in factorial design of experiments
(University of NairobiDepartment of Commerce, 1984-06)In this dissertation, we discuss the sensitivity of optimum balanced 2m fractional designs of resolutiun V to outliers using the measure suggested by Box and Draper (1975). In addition, we define a new measure of robustness ... -
A study on the causes of puppy morbidity and mortality among dog breeding units in Nairobi county and its environs.
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A Study on the Epidemiological and Molecular Relationships of Circulating Foot and Mouth Disease Viruses in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in Kenya causing serious economic losses in the livestock sector. The epidemiology of the disease in small ruminants (SR) in Kenya is not well documented and the field dynamics of ... -
A study on the use of berenil and samorin for the treatment and control of bovine trypanosomiasis in a medium challenge area
(University of NairobiFaculty of Veterinery medicine, 1981)In November 1978 a study was initiated to evaluate two trypanocidal drugs, the prophylactic Samorin and the curative Berenil as to their efficacy for supporting long-term maintanance of Boran cattle in a 'low' to 'medium' ... -
A study towards an understanding of rural housing provision and requirements for Siaya district
(University of Nairobi, 1986)This thesis constitutes a study of rural housing provision and requirements in Kenya, with particular reference to Siaya District. The study developed from a statement of the problem that there is inadequate housing in ... -
Studying The Feasibility Of Practicing Integrated Farming System In Nyamira County
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Stunted-overweight And Feeding Practices Among Children 6-59 Months Old In A Well-baby Clinic: The Case Of Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi.Faculty of Agriculture, 2011)In Kenya, weight of under five year old children is taken monthly as routine growth monitoring procedures. Linear growth of the children is however not monitored unless under special circumstances yet the early stage of ... -
Substitution of milk with high-energy high-protein lactic fermented maize-bean mixture in rehabilitation of severely malnourished children
(University of NairobiDepartment of Food and Nutrition Technology, 2001)High-energy milk (HEM) consisting of cow's milk, oil and sugar is used in the rehabilitation diet of children at the Mwanamugimu Nutrition Unit. In this . study a mixture of lactic fermented maize and beans was, used as ... -
Substrates evaluation and effects of ph and nutritional supplementation on production of oyster mushroom (pleurotus ostreatus)
(Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT), 2009)Mushrooms have been grown all over the world for many years because of their culinary, medicinal, bioremediation and biodegradation properties. Lack of locally generated information on substrates for oyster mushroom ... -
Sulphur Status Of Some Kenya Soils And Its Availability To Plants
(University of NairobiDepartment of Agriculture, 1982)The sulphur status of major agricultural soils of Kenya was estimated through laboratory determinations of total sulphur, organic sulphur and sulphate sulphur and through use of the Janssen double-pot technique. The ... -
Sunflower Seed Yield And Root Development In Relation To Water And Nitrogen
(Faculty of Agriculture, 1993)Kenya continues to spend large sums of the scarce foreign currency on the importation of vegetable oil. Adequate local supplies of sunflower would save the country such expenditure. Besides, the protein-rich cake ... -
The supply responsiveness of cotton farmers in Central/Eastern Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Agricultural Economics, 1991)The broad objective of this study was to identify the reason(s) for the sluggish growth in annual seed cotton output and failure to attain its targeted supply levels for Central/Eastern Kenya over the last two to three ... -
The supply responsiveness of wheat farmers in Kenya
(University of NairobiAgriculture, 1986)The major objective of the study was to show how wheat farmers respond to price incentives in Trans-Nzoia,Uasin Gishu, Nakuru, Narok and Nyandarua districts in Kenya. The Prices included in the analysis are the annual and ...