Agricultural extension is a critical agent for transfomiing subsistence farming to modernized and commercial agriculture through the dissemination of agricultural information to farmers. Despite this, extension services ...
Indigenous chicken (IC) are found wherever there are human settlements in Rwanda. Their preference to exotic chicken breeds by farmers could be attributed to their small production cost. scavenging ability, and adaptability ...
Poor husbandry, low use of improved inputs and limited access to technical advice are likely to be related to a farmer's education. Forty-six percent of Teso fanners are literate, but the literacy rate of men (66%) is ...
Food security and post-harvest handling are greatly undermined by insect pests which cause about 20% post-harvest losses of food grains in subsistence agriculture. Despite the enormous potential for pest control. the ...
Porcine cysticercosis (PC) infection is a zoonotic disease of public health concern globally, caused by Taenia solium larvae. The prevalence of PC infection is highest where domestic pigs scavenge for food in poor sanitary ...
ABSTRACT
The Kenyan economy relies on agricultural production and tourism industry with the agricultural
ector contributing up to 26% of its GDP. The performance of the sector majorly depends on the
efficiency and ...
This thesis is a critique of individual fulfilment as a goal of university education among the undergraduates in Kenya. The statement of the problem was that the Kenyan University education system does not seem to provide ...
Water is a scarce natural resource with no known replacement. lnsufficient precipitation in arid and semi-arid regions of East Africa contribute to less water available to crops. Appropriate management ofagricultural water ...
Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto mosquito larvae are known to thrive in non-polluted environments. However, the larvae have adapted to heavy metal polluted habitats at a significant biological cost. The molecular processes ...
Kimurto, Paul Kiprotich(Egerton University, 2008-09)
Breeders have traditionally applied methods where grain yield comparison is used as the main selection criterion for drought tolerance. The approach has often succeeded in the absence of in-depth knowledge about ...
Annually, diarrhoea accounts for the deaths of over 1.6 million children under 5 or about 15% of all deaths of children under 5 in developing countries. A study was carried out between January 2005 and April 2006 in 350 ...
Despite the fact that the overall benefits of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first half of infancy have well been established, especially for mother-infant pairs in low social economic status, the rates are low in ...
The loss of key resources/areas in Baringo County, Kenya, essential for the ecological functioning of the pastoral and agro-pastoral systems, has affected livelihoods of the communities leading to hunger and poverty. The ...
Mironga, John Momanyi(Egerton University, 2008-10)
Water hyacinth tfichhornia crassipes) is an invasive aquatic macrophyte associated with major inagxir-‘e economic and ecological impacts in the Lake Naivasha region since the plant’s inz\‘L:1:'ic-2 into the lake in 1986. ...
Mbuthia, Stephen Karori(Egerton University, 2015-03)
Polyphenolic fractions in tea are potent bio active molecules with health benefits including potential anticancer properties. However, the mechanism of action of tea as an anticancer or chemo-preventive agent is poorly ...
The Scientificity of Swahili Linguistic Terminology This thesis was on the ‘Scientificity" of Swahili linguistic terminology and methods used in word coinage so that we can determine reasons for their acceptability. The ...
The performance of institutions offering tertiary education, and particularly centres of training in science and technology, influences the overall development of a country. However, most research has been preoccupied ...
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is defined as an inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract of unknown aetiology that presents in distinct clinical manifestations including Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative ...