IOSR-JESTFT   Volume-13 ~ Issue-9 ~ September 2019

Abstract: Poultry farming as an enterprise is important in this time and age of diminishing acreage in terms of landholding in sub-Saharan Africa. Marketing activities are essential in poultry farming, and they include collection, evaluation, and dissemination of marketing information and scheduling of production, thus agricultural extension education plays a major role in the marketing of poultry products. The purpose of the study was to establish the influence of agricultural extension education on the marketing of poultry products in Butere sub-county, Kakamega County, Kenya. The study was guided by the following research question;, to establish the effect of agricultural extension education on the marketing of poultry products. The respondents were; poultry farmers, extension workers, Veterinary/Agricultural...........

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Abstract: Protein content is a basic and important quality indicator for rice and important for its overall quality during harvesting. Hyperspectral imaging technology(HSI)which is a fast and nondestructive detection technology was used to evaluate the rice (with chaff)protein content and quality. Partial least squares regression(PLSR) was used to build a calibration model (calibration coefficient= 0.992, root mean square error of calibration = 0.697%), across-validation model (cross-validation coefficient= 0.993, root mean square error of cross-validation = 0.624%) and a predictive model (prediction coefficient= 0.970, root mean square error of prediction = 1.03%). The characteristic wavelengths...............

Keywords: Hyperspectral imaging, Rice, Protein content, Partial least squares regression, Characteristic wavelength selection

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Abstract: Half of the world's population live in cities and towns where many poor urban dwellers are facing problems in gaining access to adequate supplies of nutritionally balanced food. For many urban populations, an important source of food is urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA). A number of people in the urban centers around the world practice urban and peri-urban farming, which offers to make food available to the urban population. Unfortunately, UPA has become a controversial debate due to uncertainties of its positive verses negative effects. As UPA is gaining popularity, its environmental implications are yet to be understood and documented. If not managed well, UPA may lead to serious degradation of the environment like any other human activity. The continued reference..............

Keywords: UPA typologies, urban agriculture, peri-urban agriculture, environment, empirical evaluation

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