This study sets out to evaluate the outcomes of an institutional intervention to mobilize
livestock owners in the Gideon Cluster of Blouberg Municipality of Capricorn District in
Limpopo Province. The intervention from ...
A study was conducted to determine the effect of dietary energy level on DM intake,
growth rate, feed conversion ratio (FCR), live weight and physiological responses of
yearling male Bonsmara, Nguni and Brahman cattle ...
Rangeland contribute about 70% of the feed that sustain livestock throughout the year. However, due its degradation arising from among others woody plant encroachment, a shift of savanna and grassland biomes to closed ...
Smallholder cash crop farmers form part of the economy’s growth potential and savings are enormously important for stability within their farms. Farmers in South Africa have been faced with environmental catastrophes such ...
Identification of pathogens is a crucial step in the diagnosis of livestock diseases. An
insight of bacterial diversity may enable decisions on appropriate treatment and shield
farmers from tremendous losses due to disease ...
Farmer’s participation is a concept that is intended to ensure that farmers are an essential part of the processes to determine their destination in relation to their development needs. Participatory Extension Approach is ...
Malnutrition continues to pose a serious threat to humankind and their animals, and this is inextricably exacerbated by the irrevocable incident of climate change. Due to the latter, adaptation efforts for achieving the ...
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of energy level in the diets of indigenous Venda hens on egg production, hatchability and subsequent productivity of the chicks. The first part of the study determined ...
The multinomial model was fitted to the stated preference data of the transportation
problem by commuters in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria. The data analyzed in the study was
collected in 2001 among 151 less literate (highest ...
The aim of the study was to generate new ecological data for the Turfloop Nature
Reserve (TNR), which would lead to practical management recommendations that
should reduce or minimise the current negative anthropogenic ...
Two studies (field and tunnel house experiments) were conducted during the 2012/2013 growing season to assess the effect of a commercial seaweed extract (Technikelp) and Bradyrhizobia inoculation on growth, nodulation, ...
Farmer’s networks can be an effective means to contribute to sustainable agricultural development. Farmers can learn from each other, with each other, can act as a negotiating partner, invest collectively and involve ...
A nutritional experiment was conducted to determine the effect of pawpaw seed meal
supplementation on productivity, mortality and carcass characteristics of indigenous
Venda chickens raised in closed confinement. ...
The current research is based on several months of action research process within the
rural community involved in transforming its current management of small-scale
irrigation schemes. Mohlapitsi irrigation schemes ...
Weaning weight and milk production are traits of economic importance in beef
production and knowledge of their genetic relationship is of importance for genetic
improvement. While indigenous cattle constitute a big ...
Following the withdrawal of synthetic pesticides from agro-chemical markets, several extracts from various plants have been tested. Despite this progress, some plant extracts with bio-pesticidal properties have also been ...
The aim of this thesis is to study the structure and reactivity of FeS2 (pyrite).The
transition metal sulphide, FeS2 crystallizes into cubic (pyrite) and orthorhombic
(marcasite), is an important member of the sulphides ...
The structural, electronic and optical properties of titanium dioxide (TiO2) in anatase
phase have been studied by first-principle self-consistent local density approximation.
Norm-conserving pseudopotentials were utilized ...
A useful way for studying the properties of a group G is to express the elements of G in terms of matrices or permutations [27]. In 1878 Cayley showed that every group G is isomorphic to a subgroup of the symmetric group ...
Soil clay minerals are secondary minerals formed by low temperature reactions in the soil
through weathering. These minerals are highly reactive and greatly influence the chemical
and physical properties of many soils. ...