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Volume 23 Number 1 Year 2021

30 articles in this issue 

Mohamed Gamal Zaki

The main objective of this study was to assess the combination effect of media types, media bed depths, drain types and number of drains on friction head losses in media filter. An experimental study with scaled media filter prototype was conducted with t... see more

Pags. 1 - 11  

farshad sorkhi,Saeid Khomari

Abstract To investigate the effect of water deficit stress on yield and osmotic regulator of tetraploid and hexaploid wheat genotypes an experiment was carried out at Research Station of Islamic azad university of Miandoab in 2015. The soil texture of exp... see more

Pags. 12 - 16  

Okechukwu Oduma

Abstract: A research was conducted to examine the effect of soil type and operational speed on the performance of some selected agricultural field machineries in South- East Nigeria. Results revealed that the disc plough had maximum field efficiency of 88... see more

Pags. 17 - 27  

Eni Sumarni,Afik Hardanto,Poppy Arsil

Temperature control of the rooting area with application of root zone cooling in an aeroponic system succeeded in maintaining the freshness of potato plant roots during planting to achieve tuber initiation. However, following the application of root zone ... see more

Pags. 28 - 35  

mawhoub Amirouche

The search for decision-making tools is essential in order to control agricultural practices and plan for sustainable agriculture that respects the environment. To this end, FAO has developed an evaluation model called AquaCrop, which covers most technica... see more

Pags. 36 - 46  

Hisham Mohamed Imam

Innovative irrigation agricultural and irrigation strategies are desirable in the face of dwindling water resources and increasing demand for food, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. The presented work investigated the effect of both  Alternate ... see more

Pags. 47 - 56  

Shahzad Hussain Dahri,Munir Ahmed Mangrio,Muhammad Saffar Mirjat,Saeed Ahmed Dahri,Zaheer Ahmed Aqulani,Jazib Hussain Jakhrani,Ghulam Mehdi Aghani

This research was intended to determine the groundwater contribution in crop water-use of sesame crop under different water tables depths and to assess the accuracy of CROPWAT model to simulate the evapotranspiration. The method of combining Lysimeters wa... see more

Pags. 57 - 67  

Moataz Kamal Elnemr,Adel Helal Elmetwalli

This study aimed to get the most possible benefit of using deficit irrigation to maximize water productivity of squash, besides investigating the ability of drip irrigation uniformity to reduce the effect of deficit irrigation on squash crop production (C... see more

Pags. 68 - 74  

Carolina Bilibio,Oliver Hensel

Evapotranspiration covers are key to minimizing water percolation in waste systems. On potash tailings piles, evapotranspiration covers are important because they may decrease the leaching of brines generated from precipitation erosion. Considering this, ... see more

Pags. 75 - 91  

Harby Mostafa,Ahmed Moursy,Moamed El-Ansary,Maysa Hatata

A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of fertigation components on emission uniformity, emitter clogging and soil infiltration rate. The effects of two types of emitters with two discharges and six fertilization treatments were undertaken. ... see more

Pags. 92 - 99  

oluwadunsin seun ajayi

The conservation of water is crucial to sustainable agricultural production during dry season when there is little or no rainfall to improve crop production. Thus this study is aimed to evaluate the effects of different levels of water applications on the... see more

Pags. 100 - 108  

Atul kumar Shrivastava,N K Khandelwal,R K Dubey,prabhat kumar guru

Traditionally in Indian agriculture draught animals enables farmers to increase agricultural production and improve the quality of life but in recent decades there has been a trend towards replacing draught animals with farm tractors. There is rapid shift... see more

Pags. 109 - 114  

Cosmas Anyanwu,Charity Ibelegbu,Chinyere Ugwu,Valentine Okonkwo,Chigbo Mgbemene

This paper presents the design, construction and comparative performance evaluation a cereal slurry sieving machine. For the evaluation, wet slurries of maize, millet and sorghum were each sieved with three sieves of mesh sizes of 1.19 mm, 1.00 mm and 0.3... see more

Pags. 115 - 127  

Abolfazl Hedayatypour,Mustafa Goodarzi,Marefat Mostafavirad

       In many agricultural systems around the world, competition of weeds is one of the major factors reducing crop yield. This research was carried out to study the performance of mechanical methods for weed control, mechan... see more

Pags. 128 - 137  

Ephrème Dossavi DAYOU

The need for efficient agricultural equipment that is compatible with the characteristics of farms remains a crucial issue in Africa. The aim of the work was to design, fabricate and test a seeder for direct seeding. The method used consisted in collectin... see more

Pags. 138 - 147  

Adel Vahedi

Beyond 66% of the world population are using Rice (Oryza sativa L.) as staple food which is considered one of the most popular cereals crop ranked after wheat and corn. Both mechanized and conventional methods are being applied in Iran to grow rice. This ... see more

Pags. 148 - 158  

Olatunde Ajani Oyelaran

Raw material costs are responsible for the greater percentage of biodiesel production cost. In this research chicken and guinea fowl wastes eggshell were used as feedstock for the producing heterogeneous catalyst for production of biodiesel. Proceeding th... see more

Pags. 159 - 167  

Oyetayo Olukorede Oyebode,Ayodele Olarewaju Ogunlela

An appraisal was carried out on the level of awareness of the Agricultural Engineering profession by employers of labour in Ilorin, Nigeria, to evaluate who they (employers of labour) think an Agricultural Engineer is, how relevant they think he is to the... see more

Pags. 168 - 175  

Mohammad Muaz Hashim

Oil Palm Decanter Cake (OPDC) from palm oil milling is a potential hazard for environment due to its elevated organic content. Direct use of OPDC for planting medium could also give negative effect to plant growth, despite its high potential due to its su... see more

Pags. 176 - 182  

Mai AL-Dairi,Pankaj B Pathare

Quality deterioration in tomato along the supply chain due to postharvest losses has become a continual challenge in Middle East countries. The aim of this study is to determine the changes in tomato quality parameters during storage. Fresh tomatoes were ... see more

Pags. 183 - 193  

Han Jin,Praveen Kolar,Steven Peretti,Jason Osborne,Jay J Cheng

There is significant interest in developing renewable solid base catalysts from agricultural wastes for use in the transesterification of fats into fatty acid methyl esters (FAME). In this study, an inexpensive base catalyst was synthesized by impregnatin... see more

Pags. 194 - 202  

John Isa

African star apple (Chrysophyllum albidum) is a popular tree in tropical region with all the parts used for food and medicinal purposes. This study focused on the determination of some physical properties, mechanical properties, proximate composition, and... see more

Pags. 203 - 216  

Onyekachi John Ikegwu

The thermal conductivity of agricultural seeds has been used as engineering parameter in the design of process and machines for drying, storing, aeration and refrigeration. The thermal conductivity of white and red pigeon pea seeds with changes in moistur... see more

Pags. 217 - 224  

Rabi Kabir Ahmad,Nalado Dauda Dangora,Hajara Kabir Ahmad

Interest and research work on soybean has been brought back into action due to its increasing demand as a cash crop and as the cheapest source of protein. Its production and processing can only be achieved and maximize with the help of agricultural equipm... see more

Pags. 225 - 234  

SUNMONU MUSLIU OLUSHOLA,ODEWOLE MICHAEL MAYOKUN,OYEDUN ALIU OLAMIDE,OLA FUNMILAYO OPEYEMI,HAMID TAYE MUSLIM

As milk provides a substantial amount of vitamins and minerals in relation to its energy content, it is considered a nutrient dense food The difference and changes in the nutritional compositions (Protein, fat, carbohydrate, moisture content, ash content,... see more

Pags. 235 - 243  

Jannatul Ferdows Nipa

Appropriate drying model is an important attribute for describing the drying kinetics of food products. Thin layer drying of taro roots were performed in a laboratory scale hot air dryer operated at 50oC, 60oC and 70oC temperature with air velocity of 0.5... see more

Pags. 244 - 251  

salih kadhim Alwan

The effect of local thresher machine on maize cultivar Rabie was observed based on some technical indicators, under two clearance of threshing cylinders (0.7 and 0.9mm) and three grain moisture content .The experiments were conducted in a factorial experi... see more

Pags. 252 - 256  

Payel Ghosh,Nikhil Swaraj,Rama Chandra Pradhan

Indian black berry known as Jamun is a minor fruit which contains high amount of tannin. Extraction and clarification of juice is quite difficult due to its pulp nature. Tannase a membrane bound enzyme is added to clarify the Jamun juice which helps to ob... see more

Pags. 257 - 265  

Delfin C. Suministrado

Acoustic impulse responses of young coconut fruits were analyzed using Fourier analysis and the correlation of signal characteristics with the mucous-like stage, cooked rice-like stage and leather-like stage maturity levels was determined. Analyses of sou... see more

Pags. 266 - 273  

mohammad hudzari haji razali

Soil electrical conductivity (EC) is a measurement that links with the soil properties that will affect crop productivity. With advances in technology for precision agriculture, Veris Technologies introduce the on-the-go sensors for measuring level of Soi... see more

Pags. 274 - 283