The study of the inheritance and gene action of weevil resistance in maize was undertaken using a 12 parent half diallel design. Seven resistant inbred lines were obtained from CIMMYT-Zimbabwe and five susceptible lines were obtained from soils and crop Research Branch(SCRB), Zambia. The lines...
Download PDF ↓The purpose of this research was to find out the reading performance of pupils to whom Cicewa is not their first language in comparison with those to whom Cicewa is their first language. The data were collected through End of Term Test, Interviews and class observation. The key informants...
Download PDF ↓Artificial Intelligence (AI) based control techniques are becoming more popular for their applicability to complex control systems. In this research, an Intelligent Controller is designed for a non-linear process with complex dynamics - the Inverted Pendulum. The controller is designed to...
Download PDF ↓The study attempts to explore the role migration has played in the development of agricultural resources of Southern Province of Zambia between 1960-1980. This study used library and fieldwork data, the later data having been collected by the author through interviews with sixty people in two...
The purpose of this thesis was to study the levels of adult literacy among the Chewa people of Mancheula Community. This area is at the border between Zambia and Mozambique. In this study, sample population came from eight villages in Mancheula: Fifty households, forty individual adult...
Download PDF ↓This dissertation considers the benefits of St. Edmunds Secondary School to the community as a day school. To cover the subject, reasons St. Edmunds was changed to a day school from a boarding school and problems it faced as a day school were investigated. Ever since boarding facilities were...
Download PDF ↓Literate citizens of any country are an asset to that particular country. Furthermore, if a country has got human resource that is literate, then that country stands a better chance of developing and continuing to do so. Literacy is, however, a broad notion. Different types of literacy are talked...
Download PDF ↓In the Zambian economy, Taxation holds a key role to economic development. This has been the case since the time of independence in 1964 when the use of five-year development plans was introduced. Since then, what has troubled the minds of economic planners has been to devise a system of...
Download PDF ↓Involving parents in the education of their children with visual impairment is an important aspect in the learning process for these children. Available research shows that the first responsibility for educating a child rests with parents and thereafter it becomes a shared responsibility with the...
Blood samples drawn from 20 goats in Southern and Eastern provinces (Choma, Gwembe, Mazabuka, Petaike, Katete and Chipata) were analysed by the leucocyte culture method and the findings presented in idiograms. Goats from these two regions had had 60 diploid chromosomes number (58 autosomes and 2...