Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean (L.) Verde.) is an indigenous African Leguminous crop, cultivated mainly by small-scale farmers in Zambia. The crop is grown predominantly for human consumption although it has potential for use in animal feeds and in many farming systems for soil amendments...
The study conducted to access the insecticidal activity of selected plant extracts:Eucalyptus Eucalyptus globules., Guava, Psidium guajava l., Neem, Azadirachta indica A. Juss., Tephrosia, Tephrosia vogelii F (Hook) and water Hyacinth Erchhornia crassipes (Martius) Solms-Laubach, against the...
Download PDF ↓An experiment was conducted at UNZA and ZAMSEED farms in Lusaka Zambia, during the 1994/95 season to study the effects of spacing, row arrangement and genotype on the grain yield of Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp) intercropped with Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). A split-split plot design was...
Download PDF ↓A study was conducted in the glasshouse to investigate the effects of soil type, watering interval, planting depth, and crust formation on emergence and seedling establishment of sorghum. Three separate pot experiments were conducted using three soil types and sorghum as a test crop. Various...
Download PDF ↓A study was conducted at Lilayi farm in a no-tillage crop production system. The objective of the study was to assess the efficacy of new herbicides in a no-tillage soybean cultivation system in Zambia. Eleven treatments were used in this study. These include four preemergence, five postemergence...
Download PDF ↓The objectives of the study was to determine a maize/ forage legume combination and an appropriate row arrangement that would result in high maize grain and total stover / legume straw yield, enhanced crude protein content of the maize stover /legume straw and increased crude protein content of...
Download PDF ↓The grain yield of wheat in Lesotho is low because of poor soil fertility, and the wheat is regarded by the millers to be of poor quality and therefore of less value. A field study was therefore conducted at three sites in Lesotho( Maseru, Leribe and Mafeteng) to evaluate the influence of...
Maize is the main staple food crop in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), which includes Zimbabwe and its productivity increases when improved varieties are planted. Development of such technologies is mainly by public and private breeding programs, which in most cases do this in...
Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is an important crop in Zambia but many foliar diseases pose a serious threat to its successful production in the country. During the last three years frogeye leaf spot disease caused by Cercospora sojina Hara has become the most prevalent disease in most parts of...
Download PDF ↓Maize is an important staple and cash crop in Zambia. Abiotic and biotic stress conditions, particularly low soil fertility (low nitrogen) and grey leaf spot(Cercospora zeae- maydis), reduce maize yields. Most varieties developed by the Zambian National Maize Programme have neither resistance to...