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Integrated farming in Zimbabwe
Type: Journal Article
Integration of aquaculture with agricul¬ture (integrated farming) provides balanced food production, increases farmers' income, recycles nutrients, protects the environment and optimizes food production where resources are ...
Effect of planting pattern on shading and phytoplankton photosynthesis in Bangladesh rice-fish farms
Type: Journal Article
In the present study, a Border Planting (BP) pattern recommended by the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council was tested against Regular Planting (RP) to assess the effect, if any, on gross phytoplankton photosynthesis ...
A fish crop may improve rice yields and ricefields
Type: Journal Article
Rice and fish are important in Asian diets. Up to now the supplies of rice and fish have come from differentRice and fish are important in Asian diets. Up to now the supplies of rice and fish have come from different ...
Collection of juvenile mullet species from a brackishwater tidal farm in Nigeria
Type: Journal Article
The major constraint to the development of aquaculture in Nigeria has been the non-availability of fingerlings in required numbers of cultivable species. A specifically designed trap to collect mullet (Liza falcipinnis; ...
The Network of Tropical Aquaculture Scientists (NTAS) : past, present and future
Type: Journal Article
This article reviews the past, present and future activities of the Network of Tropical Aquaculture Scientists (NTAS), an information network for individual scientists working on tropical aquaculture, especially on genetics, ...
Integrated resources management, integrated agriculture-aquaculture and the African farmer
Type: Journal Article
Despite the expenditure of huge amounts of money and human effort, the Green Revolution has largely failed to benefit the vast majority of the rural poor in Africa: those smallholding farmers who sell little, if any, of ...
Integrated agriculture-aquaculture: a way for food security for small farmers and better resource management and environment
Type: Conference Paper
Traditionally fish have been a natural component of rice-ecosystems. Intensive agriculture has led to degradation offish habitats, resulting in disappearance of fish from rice fields. The economic viability and impact on ...
Growth, mortality and recruitment of short-wing flying fish Oxyphorhampus micropterus in Bohol Sea, Philippines
Type: Journal Article
The von Bertalanffy growth parameters (L8 and K) were estimated, based on length-frequency data from the small scale fishery, and the Compleat ELEFAN software, for short wing flying fish Oxyphorhampus micropterus (Hemiramphidae) ...
Growth and mortality of Indian mackerel Rastrelliger kanagurta (Scombridae) in the Visayan Sea, Central Philippines
Type: Journal Article
The growth of Indian mackeral Rastrelliger kanagurta in the Visayas Sea, central Philippines, is estimated, based on length-frequency data from 1983 to 1987 and the Compleat ELEFAN program. Results are TL8 = 38 cm and K = ...
Growth, mortality and recruitment of Omani abalone (Haliotis mariae)
Type: Journal Article
Historical length-frequency data of Oman abalone (Haliotis mariae) from two areas (Sadh and Hadbin) of the Dhofar coast of the Sultanate of Oman were used to estimate growth parameters by nonlinear least square fitting. ...