Yearly Archives: 2024

Fig 1: BIOTURBATION Bioturbation is the process by which plants and animals move, mix, and restructure soil and sediment. It can simply be defined as the mixing of soil or sediments…

Fig 1: DROUGHT AND HEAT STRESS Water is a nessessity substance that all living things cannot do without. It is important for: Temperature regulation, aid digestion, nutrient absorption and waste removal…

Fig 1: SOIL NUTRIENT IMBALANCE A nutrient imbalance in soil occurs when the amount of essential nutrients for plants is either too low or too high or when it is…

Fig 1: NUTRIENTS AT SOIL EXCHANGE SITE Nutrient movement in soils and nutrient absorption by plants is a complex and essential process for the growth and development of all plant…

Fig 1 Sesame (Sesamum indicum), is a plant in the family Pedaliacea and genus Sesamum. It is also called several names like simsim,  benne  or  gingelly. It is believed to have likely…

Fig 1: SHRIMPS Shrimps farming is becoming popular and also increasing all over the world. The highest shrimps and prawn producer lies in the Asian continent where millions of shrimps…

Fig 1: CUCUMBERS Cucumber (Cucumis sativus), is a creeping plant of the gourd family  (Cucurbitaceae), belong to the order Cucurbitales and containing 98 genera and about 975 species. It is widely cultivated for its edible…

Fig 1: BIOCHAR Recycling of waste materials is now gaining a lot of ground globally. Lots of waste materials are now produced during human activities, animal wastes and crop residues…

Fig 1: PAPAYA Papayas a fruit crop originate from Central America where the indigenes ate papayas and used them for medicinal purposes. In the 1500s and 1600s, Spanish and Portuguese…

Fig 1: SOIL INFILTRATION When water comes down as precipitation, some of the water will seep down into the ground where it stay for some time until plants take it…