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Economic evaluation of progeny-testing and genomic selection schemes for small-sized nucleus dairy cattle breeding programs in developing countries.
(2016)
In developing countries minimal and erratic performance and pedigree recording impede implementation of large-sized breeding programs. Small-sized nucleus programs offer an alternative but rely on their economic performance ...
Assessing the influence of knowledge of type and numbers of livestock exchange in stock friends’ concept as a strategy in poverty alleviation; case of Ngomeni Community of Mwingi District in Kenya
(2015)
One of the challenge-facing Kenya is high levels of poverty. Different ways of poverty alleviation are applied among them is stock friends strategy. The strategy is ineffective among the Ngomeni community of ...
Nutrient digestibility in diets containing low-phytate barley, low-phytate field pea and normal phytate field pea, and the effects of microbial phytase on energy and nutrient digestibility in the low and normal-phytate field pea fed to pigs
(Elsevier, 2015-05)
Five ileal cannulated barrows (43.6 ± 1.3 kg BW) were used in a 5 × 5 Latin square design experiment to determine the apparent (AID) and standardized (SID) ileal digestibility of N and amino acids (AA) in low-phytate field ...
Energy and amino acid digestibility of camelina meal fed to growing pigs.
(Elsevier, 2014-07)
This experiment was conducted to determine the apparent (AID) and standardized ileal digestibility, (SID) of crude protein (CP) and amino acids (AA), the digestible (DE), metabolizable (ME) and calculated net energy (NE) ...
Performance and phosphorus utilization of broiler chickens fed low phytate barley and pea based diets with graded levels of inorganic phosphorus.
(2017)
The effects of feeding diets based on soybean meal, low phytate hulless barley (Lphybarley) and low phytate pea (Lphypea) with inorganic phosphorus (iP) reduced by 50 or 100% to broiler chickens on performance, P digestibility ...
Determinants of religious tourism branding tactics in Kenya: A cross sectional study
(Sage, 2016-09-28)
Shrines’ market appeal and authenticity drive religious tourism branding initiatives. Ideal packaging strategies further determine product performance in religious destinations. This article examined the potential contribution ...
Characterization of clays from Tharaka-Nithi County in Kenya for industrial and agricultural applications
(2015)
Clay samples from Tharaka-Nithi County in Kenya were characterized by hydrometer, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), TGA, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and powder diffraction ...
Resistance to spotted stem borer in commercial maize hybrids and open pollinated varieties in Kenya. Contributions from the 3rd Africa-Wide Women and Young Professionals in Science Competitions.
(2014)
ABSTRACT
Lepidoptera stem borers are major maize insectpests estimated to be responsible for annual losses of around 15% in sub-Saharan Africa and 13.5% in Kenya. The spotted stem borer (Chilo partellus Swinhoe, ...
Genetic Diversity Analysis in Tropical Maize Germplasm for Stem Borer and Storage Pest Resistance using Molecular Markers and Phenotypic traits
(2015)
One hundred maize inbred lines and eighty four hybrids were characterized for resistance to maize stem borer and
post-harvest insect pests. This was achieved using genetic distance and population structure based on simple ...
Responses of tropical maize landraces to Spotted stem borer damage in Kenya
(2013-03)
The potential to manage insect pests using host-plant resistance exists, but has not been exploited adequately. The objective of this study was to determine the resistance of 75 tropical maize landraces ...