Com a expansão da agropecuária brasileira, o aumento da exportação e do rigor na garantia de segurança alimentar é cada vez mais urgente existindo a necessidade de investir em tecnologias voltadas para a gestão de seus processos produtivos. Medir, planear, melhorar os resultados…
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In western Niger soil fertility depletion threatens food production. Cattle management and manure are used to maintain soil fertility. However, cattle population and insufficient feed limit the use of manure for improving soil fertility. The purpose of this research was to asses…
The reduced fertility following earlier estrus synchronization protocols made it necessary to develop new protocols based on our understanding of ovarian follicular dynamics and corpus luteum (CL) function in cattle. “Ovsynch” and “CIDR” are emerging protocols for ovulation sync…
A methodology for ageing foetal and neonatal cattle is developed, involving radiographic examination of infant mandibles for early developmental stages in molariform teeth; tooth-wear methodologies are imprecise at this stage before wear commences. Known-age modern bovine foetal…
Perception plays an important role in the human assessment process. This construction of an image is based on many factors, including race, religion, national origin, income, gender, marital status - in short, the summation of our life experiences. An important consideration for…
Streptococcus agalactiae is the causative bacterium of streptococcosis and causes severe economic losses in wild and cultured fish and cattle, worldwide. In fish, infection can result in septicemia with hemorrhages on the body surface and in the external and internal organs. Str…
In Exp. I the effect of mineral supplementation on reproductive performance of cows grazing native range at two locations (McCulloch--supplemented prior breeding season and Edwards--supplemented throughout breeding season) was monitored by tissue (serum and liver) parameters, bo…
This study examines the food security and marketed surplus effects of intensified dairying in the peri-urban area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where a market-oriented dairy production (MODP) system has been introduced for smallholders. Implications for policy formulation are drawn …
Conservation conflict, whether human-wildlife or human-human, and specifically those that include the public as stakeholders, is seen as one of the most influential reasons reintroduction and/or conservation of species or landscapes is difficult to accomplish. This is due to the…
The September 2017 issue of the National Geographic magazine contained an article wondering why the Netherlands, this small, urbanized, and densely-populated country in Western Europe, is the second world exporter of food. The answer is found in the innovativeness of Dutch agric…
At a meeting held on the 19th of September 1956, members of the board of the Gold Producers’ Committee agreed that an investigation into the perennial shortages in the supply of labour to the gold mines should be undertaken. The National Institute for Personnel Research was comm…