Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "Maize"
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Combining ability among multiple borer resistant,maize (zea mais, L.) inbred lines, resistant to chilo partellus and busseola fusca stem borers
(Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, University of Nairobi, 2006-04)Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important cereal crop of the world. It has worldwide significance as human food, animal feed and raw material for the manufacture of many industrial products. The most important insect pests of ... -
A comparative analysis of costs and benefits of Jatropha, maize and orange production in Kenya: case of contracted farmers in Shimba Hills
(Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2010-08-27)Energy demand and supply imbalances are a major challenge to development in Sub Saharan African countries. Reliance on petroleum as well as biomass energy sources is both uneconomical and unsustainable. These call for ... -
Diallel analysis of rate and duration of grain fill and other agronomic traits in eight inbred lines of maize
(Department of Soil Science, University of Nairobi, 1983) -
Effect of alley cropping with Calliandra calothyrsus (Meissm) on sequentially grown maize and cowpeas
(Department of soil science, University of Nairobi, 1991)A series of trials were conducted at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria, between January and December 1988 to evaluate the potential of calljandra for alley cropping. In a field experiment, ... -
Effect of clump planting of maize and time of planting of beans on growth and yield of intercropped maize and beans
(Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, University of Nairobi, 1999)Two field experiments were conducted at the University of Nairobi's Faculty of Agriculture Kabete, to investigate the merits of clump planting of maize and time of planting of intercropped beans on growth and yield of ... -
Effect of increased intimacy between maize and beans in an intercrop system on growth and yield of maize under varying nitrogen levels.
(Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, University of Nairobi, 1992)Field Nairobi's experiments Faculty of increasing were conducted at the University Agriculture farm to investigate of the merits plants of the proximity between maize and bean in an intercrop system and how ... -
Effects of planting density and weeding regimes on forage and grain yield of maize
(University of NairobiFaculty of Agriculture. University of Nairobi, 2005)Maize is a major food and forage crop in Kenya and planting density and weeding regime influence yield. The effects of weeding regimes and maize planting density on maize forage, grain yield and quality were evaluated ... -
Elastoplastic and viscoelastic behaviour of cohesionless shelled Maize en masse
(Department of Environmental and Biosystems, 2005)Cereal maize continues to be one of the most important crops in the world both for human and livestock use. Bulk harvesting, transportation, handling and processing of cereal maize is therefore important if the increasing ... -
An evaluation of mass selection and sl testing for grain yield in two maize populations of diverse origin
(Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1972) -
An evaluation of the effects of information and technology characteristics on technology choice and adoption: The case of Striga and stemborer control technologies in maize production in western Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2009-11)population is increasing, thus leading to increased demand for food, especially maize which is a staple food for most of the Kenyan population. Demand for maize in Sub Saharan Africa is projected to double to 52 million ... -
Growth and composition of Eucalyptus and maize on Kenya soils fertilized with phosphate and indole acetic acid
(Department of soil science, University of Nairobi, 1981) -
Maize - Pigeon pea Intercrop Resource Use Under Semi-Arid Conditions of Kenya.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Crop Science, 2004)A field experiment was conducted at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology between October 2001 and June 2002 to determine light, water and nitrogen use in maize-pigeonpea intercrop system. The experiment ... -
Phosphate sorption isotherms of selected soils of Kenya and maize response to phosphate fertilizer in the greenhouse
(Department of soil science, University of Nairobi, 1997)Phosphate sorption characteristics of eight selected soils of Kenya were determiner order to establish the influence of previous manure and phosphate (P) fertilizer applications. The soils were two ando-humic Nitisols, ... -
Studies on the efficiency of two breeding methods applied to improve yield and quality in two maize populations carrying Brachytic-2, Opaque-2 and Sugary-2 genes
(1981)A study was conducted on normal KCR and KCE and their modified mutant populations carrying brachytic-2, opaque-2 and sugary-2 genes. The objective was to study the effect of three mutant genes on yield and protein ...