Author: Banji Aluko

Fig 1: KIWI PLANT The kiwi plant (Actinidia deliciosa), is a vigorous, woody vine native to China and grown for its edible, fuzzy-skinned fruit, known as kiwifruit or Chinese gooseberry.…

Fig 1: MANURE Livestock manure provides a valuable source of nutrients, organic matter and carbon to pastures and cropland. As a low input by-product, manure offers a long-term source of…

Fig 1: EGGS Eggs are among the most nutritious foods on the planet. Everyone one earth only know egg as a good source of protein. But it also contain other…

Fig 1: SOIL MICROORGANISMS Microbiology is found every where around us. It can be found in the air we breathe, in water bodies and the ground we walk on. Each…

Fig 1: HEAT STRESS IN LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION The escalating demand for livestock products in developing and developed countries coupled with steadily increasing temperatures is an unbearable situation, with costly infrastructural…

Fig 1: COCONUT FIBER GROWING MEDIUM Coconut (cocos nucifera) is one of the world most useful and important perennial plants. A coconut fruit is made up of an outer exocarp, a…

Fig 1: PERLITE Perlite, also known as "volcanic popcorn", is a crop grow media made from volcanic glass. It is a naturally occurring mineral that exists as a type of volcanic…

Fig 1: ROCK WOOL Plant growth media, also known as a substrate or potting mix, is a material that supports plant growth by providing water, nutrients, air, and structure. They…

Fig 1: GELPONICS The world of today is developing different technology that will help farmers increase their production, and at thesame time in the case of crops, improve soil fertility…

Fig 1: PEAT Peat is a brown spongy deposit resembling soil, formed by the partial decomposition of vegetable matter in the wet acidic conditions of bogs and fens, and often…