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Climate Change and Agriculture: An Overview of Farmers Perception and Adaptations in Balambat Tehsil, District Dir Lower, Pakistan

Muhammad Jamal Nasir^*, Anwar Saeed Khan and Said Alam

...roup discussions were organised, one is each selected village. The key parameters addressed during survey were cropping pattern, sowing, harvesting date and yield per acre of different crops, pests and crops diseases, flowering time of fruits trees, biodiversity and livestock’s. Respondents were selected randomly but priority was given to elders and those possess land and practice agriculture. The study reveals that majority of the respondents are well a...

Impacts of Farm Mechanisation on Wheat and Maize Crops Productivity in Peshawar Valley

Rehman-Ud-din* and Naeem-Ur-Rehman Khattak

...e neither completely mechanised nor completely non-mechanised. Majority of the farmers in each type of farmers do not have their own farming machines/animals. Per acre productivity of mechanised farmers is a little bit greater than the non-mechanised farmers. The outstanding feature of farm mechanisation is the time-saving factor that enables mech

An Empirical Assessment of the Dynamics of Agricultural Growth in Pakistan

Umar Hayat^1*, Tariq Shah¹, Muhammad Suleman Bacha²and Muhammad³

...tries, Livestock and mechanised inputs are taken from State Bank of Pakistan, World Development Indicators Databases and various issues of Economic Survey of Pakistan for the period 1980-2018. Ordinary least square technique is used to estimate the model. The result shows that Institutional credit is playing a significant role in achieving agricultural growth in the country. The other variables of the model like agro-based industries, livestock, mech

Farm Record Keeping Behaviour of Rural Farming Youths in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Kemi Funmilayo Omotesho¹*, Philip Akintunde Fatodu¹ and Toyin Benedict Ajibade²

...rammes should also be organised to address deficiencies of poorly schooled youths.

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Effects of Green Anise (Pimpinella anisum) Ration Supplementation on Haematological and Biochemical Parameters and Liver and Kidney Structure in Guinea Pigs

Nkana Kontchiachou J. Gwladys¹, Kouamo Justin², Vemo Bertin Narcisse³*, Mweugang Ngouopo Nathalie⁴, Wang-Baa Temoa Christophe¹, Awantu Christian Funwi¹, Semi Yam Alphonsius¹, Kenne Noubissie Christèle⁵, Tendonkeng Fernand⁵

... of guinea pigs to green anise (Pimpinella anisum) powder ration supplementation. To achieve this aim, 60 adult female guinea pigs, weighing of 450 ± 50 g were randomly distributed to three experimental groups (20 females per group). Experimental rations consisted of incorporating green anise powder in the basic ration (control) at 0.5% (GA0.5) and 0.75% (GA0.75) of feed. These female guinea pigs were fed with experim...

Toxicity Studies of Pimpinella anisum in Albino Mice

Aamir Mushtaq¹*, Fatima Habib², Umar Farooq Gohar³, Abdul Malik⁴ and Mobasher Ahmad²

Scope of dry afforestation techniques in Quetta and Mastung districts of Balochistan

Siraj-ud-Din and Abdul Waheed Baloch

...arak valley on Atriplex canisence, A. lentiformus, Ailanthus sp. and Eucalyptus camaldulensis. Data on survival of all species and height of Atriplex canisence was recorded and analyzed.
The survival of species at Mianghundi under different water conservation techniques viz. trenches, earthen bunds, micro-catchments and eyebrow plant pits was 48%, 43%, 33% and 30% respectively while in simple pits it was 26% resp...

Introduction of Pimpinella anisum (aniseed) to judge its performance and effect of various row to row spacing on the growth and seed yield at Peshawar

Anwar Ahmad Khan and Shakeel Haider Zaidi

.... The distilled water of aniseed is also used by Hakims as carminative to relieve flatulence and for the successive control of cholera. In certain European countries the young leaves and shoots of the plant are used as garnish and for flavouring salad. Pakistan is importing aniseed and essential oil from Iran to meet the local requirements of food processing and allied pharmaceutical industries and the demand is on the...

Meat Handling and Consumption Practices in the Assin South and Cape Coast Metropolis of the Central Region of Ghana

Moses Teye¹*, Joshua Amoni¹, Awal Fuseini²

...s. Data obtained were organised and presented in frequency tables and figures. The findings indicate that females (73.3%) dominated in making meat purchasing decisions in most of the households visited, and beef was the most preferred meat. Contrary to normal practise, the majority of the consumers preferred buying tough to tender fresh meats to minimize incidence of its disintegration during prolong cooking, but would prefer eating tender cooked meat. Most of...

Antiviral activity of water extracts of some medicinal and nutritive plants from the Apiaceae family

Mohamed GabAllah1; Ahmed Kandeil2; Adel Abd El-Baset Mousa1; Mohamed Ahmed Ali2

Novel Research in Microbiology Journal (2020), 4(2): 725-735

... the tested plants, only anise plant (Pimpeniella anisum) had significant antiviral activity against the avian influenza H5N1 virus. Thus, the mode of action of this effective anise extract was investigated against the same virus. It was found that water extract of the anise plant induced virucidal effect, as well as direct effect on replication of the avian influenza H5N1 virus. The aim o...