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Prevalence and intensity of endoparasites in small ruminants kept by farmers in Kisumu Municipality, Kenya
(2009)
The keeping of small ruminants is a common practice in most urban and peri-urban areas in Africa, despite its illegality. This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of endoparasites in sheep and goats kept by ...
Aboveground Net Primary Productivity in Grazed and Ungrazed pastures: Grazing Optimisation Hypothesis or Local Extinction of Vegetation Species
(KLEE Publication, 2009)
The controversy that has surrounded herbivory studies in the last few decades prompted our investigation to
establish the extent to which herbivore optimisation hypothesis or compensatory growth evidence is real. We
used ...
Milk yield prediction in Kenyan Holstein- Friesian cattle using computer neural networks system
(2009)
An essential aspect of understanding any natural system is the ability to acquire knowledge through experience and
to adapt to new situations. This study, investigates the use of back-propagation Artificial Neural Networks ...
The role of health care in the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa: evidence from Kenya
(Univesity of Nairobi, 2009)
In 2006, Deuchert and Brody1 presented findings from an analysis of the 2003 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS) suggesting that prophylactic tetanus toxoid (TT) injection during pregnancy is a vector for HIV. The ...
Physico-chemical Methods For Preservation Of Opuntia Cactus Fruit Syrup: Empowerment Of Maasai Women In Laikipia, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
X-Ray Fluorescence Detected Variation in Nutraceutic-Implied Mineral Density in Underutilized Plants Mapped as Women-Operated Smallholder Units in the Lake Victoria Basin
(2009)
Indigenous plant biodiversity plays a key role in providing nutritional and medicinal (nutraceutical) need for smallholder farming communities. The objective of this paper was to relate farming decisions, farm landscape ...
Stimulation of nematode-destroying fungi by organic amendments applied in management of plant parasitic nematode
(2009)
A screenhouse experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of cow manure, chicken manure and their combinations on nematode destroying fungi, nematode community and growth of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). The ...
Economic Benefit of Crop Pollination by Bees: A Case of Kakamega Small-Holder Farming in Western Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 2009)
In most developing countries, crop production is by small scale farmers, who mainly produce for their own consumption and the extra for market. Pollination in such systems is unmanaged and is usually incidental, supported ...
Research Articles: Pharmacology and toxicology acute toxicity of Nicandra physaloides (L) Gaertn in cattle and mice
(2009)
Nicandra physaloides (L) Gaertn (Solanaceae), commonly known as the ‘apple of Peru’ is widely associated with livestock poisoning. The clinical signs associated with its poisoning in ruminants appear within 6 hours of ...