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The problem of drought and erratic rainfall, coupled with crop genotypes (both local and improved varieties) with low water utilisation efficiencies, are major contributors to low productivity of most crops. The poor agricultural productivity among the farming community results in poverty and...

Improved seeds are one of the most important technologies for improving agriculture production and thus contributing to growth in agriculture. However adoption of improved groundnut varieties has been extremely limited in Zambia. Despite the availability of new varieties nearly the entire...

This study investigates the factors that affect coffee exports in Zambia. A regression model is postulated based on international trade theory and estimated using SPSS. Given that there was no serious deviation from the Classical Linear Regression Model (CLRM), Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) was...

This study aimed at identifying factors affecting paprika production among small scale farmers. The study was conducted in Kabwe district among farmers under Central Growers Association (CGA) and International Development Enterprise (IDE) who have been growing paprika for the past five...

Zambia is well vested with many natural resources that have not been expected. One of such resource is the Chilembwe phosphate rock (PR) found in eastern province. The particular rock is of ingenious origin, hence having a very low solubility rate. Direct application of phosphate rock on fields...

Livestock Development Trust (LDT) is a private and public partnership established in 2002 that seeks to promote livestock development initiatives for farmers in a gender sensitive and participatory manner. This survey was an attempt to find out how much of gender concepts have been mainstreamed...

Alectra vogelii (benth) is a parasitic weed which causes significant yield reduction in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata Walp) in Tanzania. The objective of this study was to (i) identify the type of gene action controlling the trait for resistance to Alectra vogelii in cowpeas and its heritability (ii)...

The liberalized and rapidly growing seed industry has been assumed to have improved awareness and information dissemination about maize seed varieties among the small-scale farm households. Therefore, this study was conducted to examine from the farmer's point of view, the effects of changing the...

Beneficial effects of selenium (Se) can be delivered to humans through enriched plant foods. However, breeding plants to be more efficient at Se accumulation can complement enrichment efforts. This study was aimed at determining the inheritance of Se accumulation for the purpose of developing...

Timely availability of high volumes of good quality planting materials is a challenge especially for crops propagated by vegetative means such as sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.]. Zambian growers rely on volunteer plant sprouts to generate vines. Recently the use of root sprouts has been...