March 2015

Storability of soybean flour and its hazard analysis in Nigeria

Soybean was procured from a local market in Ilorin, washed, dried, milled, packaged and stored under hermetic conditions using transparent plastic container. Proximate composition was carried out on the samples 4-monthly (once-in -4 months) for a period of one year. Moisture content was determined by air-oven method while proximate composition was carried out by Standard Methods of Association of Official Analytical...

Author(s): Ogundele B. A., Arowora K. A., Abiodun A. A., Afolayan S. S., Ajani A. O. and Adetunji C. O.

March 2015

Eco-friendly approaches for management of bruchid beetle Callosobruchus chinensis (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) infesting faba bean and cowpea under laboratory conditions

Eco-friendly management of bruchid beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis infesting faba bean (Vicia faba) and cowpea (Vigna angulculata) under laboratory conditions were conducted at Department of Plant Protection, Hamelmalo Agricultural College, Keren, Eritrea, to evaluate the effectiveness of four environment friendly treatments, that is, sesame oil, neem seed powder, hot water salt solution and cold water salt solution...

Author(s): Tufail Ahmad, Adugna Haile, Ande Ermias, Robel Etbarek, Selam Habteab and Selam Teklai