Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "Sorghum"
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Assessment of Kenyan sorghum diversity using morphological characters and molecular techniques
(Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nairobi, 2009)Characterization of the available Kenyan sorghum genetic diversity is important to understand the dynamics of the genetic resources and to improve and sustain sorghum productivity. The main aim of this study was to assess ... -
Effect of feeding germinated brown sorghum and methionine supplementation on performance of broiler chicken
(Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi, 2018)The study investigated the effects of germination on chemical composition and tannin content of brown sorghum (var. Serena) as well as feeding germinated and ungerminated Serena sorghum based diets to broiler chickens for ... -
Evaluation of land cover and crop type change: building evidence on the effect of cropping systems and orga nic inputs on sorghum yield and enhancing farmers climate change adaptive capacity
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASALs), which in Kenya constitutes 80% of its landmass, are the most affected by climate change. Crop production is most affected as a result of climate variability with farmers being the ... -
Sow responses to varying feeding panes of sorghum based diets
(Departmeni of Animal Production, University of Nairobi, 1998)Two studies were done to assess the influence of feeding levels of sorghum based diets on reproduction in primiparous sows. The first study was conducted to asses the effect of replacing maize w i th sorghum in p i q ...