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Item Assessment of Agricultural Extension Services delivery to Cotton Farmers in Oyo State, Nigeria(Faculty of Agriculture, Nassarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria., 2020) Adebayo, S.A.; Bolarin, O.; Malomo, O.J.; Sulaiman, O.F.This study assessed Agricultural Extension Services delivery to cotton farmer in Oyo State, Nigeria. Questionnaire was used to elicit information from one hundred and thirty-two (132) respondents randomly selected for the study. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed for the study. Results revealed that majority of the cotton farmers were male (53.8%), married (78.8%), had farming as primary occupation (76.5%), had farming experience of 1-5years (71.2%) and were in the productive age of 52yrs. The respondents were aware of the service delivery rendered by ADP. The major sources of information used by the cotton farmers were radio (97.0%) and extension agents (96.2%). The capacity building received by the cotton farmers include ‘Training on harvesting and how to remove cotton lint’ (x= 3.88). The result of Pearson-product moment correlation shows that farming experience (r =0.000, p= -0.031), and contact with extension agent (r = 0.000, p = 0.813) had positive significance with extension services received. Therefore, the study recommends that agricultural information on cotton production should be channeled through radio and followed up by extension agents due to the frequency of usage among farmers.Item ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL MEDIA UTILIZATION BY POULTRY AND FISH FARMERS IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA(2021) Bolarin, O.; Oyekunle, M.O.; Adebayo, S.A.The study attempted to assess the utilization of social media (online newspaper, Agricultural blog, Email, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia) by poultry and fish farmers in Oyo state. A random selection was used to select 110 respondents. Data were collected through structured questionnaire and analyzed with frequency count, percentage, and chi-square test statistics. Findings revealed that respondents are at various level of usage of social media. WhatsApp (84%) and Facebook (78%) were accessed and used social media for livestock farming purposes. Incidences of not able to access information were 43% for agricultural blogs, Emails and Twitter, 46% for online newspapers. Further analysis revealed that visiting agricultural Blogs, Wikipedia and Email and Instagram have significant relationship with the level of education of the farmers. The study posited that basic education do serve as an enhancer to the utilization of social media.Item Chemical Composition of Leaf and Fruit Essential Oils of Hoslundia opposita Vahl Grown in Nigeria(IDOSI Publications, 2010) Usman, L.A.; Zubair, M.F; Adebayo, S.A.; Oladosu, I.A; Muhammed, N.O; Akolade, J.O.Hydrodistilled leaves and fruits of Hoslundia opposite yielded 0.54% and 0.65%v/w of essentials oils. Investigation by GC and GC-MS revealed that the bulk of the oils were constituted by oxygenated monoterpenes (81.3 and 81.4% for the leaves and fruits, respectively). The principal constituents of the leaf oil were 1,8-cineole (72.3%), α-terpineol (7.2%), sabinene (4.5%), thymol (4.2) and car-3-ene (3.7%). The fruit oil had abundance of camphor (69.5%), linalool (5.4%) and limonene (2.5%).Item Chemical Constituentss of Leaf Essential Oil of North-central Nigerian Grown Vitex Agnus-castus I(American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information, 2010) Hamid, A. A.; Usman, L.A; Adebayo, S.A.; Zubair, M.F; Elaigwu, S.EPulverized leaf of vitex agnus-castus on hydrodistillation, afforded oil in the yield of 0.8%v/w. GC, GC/MS analyses of the oil revealed the abundance of hydrocarbon and oxygenated monoterpenes (53.2 and 24.5% respectively). The major constituents of the oil were; β-pinene (20.0%), viridiflorol (9.8%), α-pinene (9.1%), cis-ocimene (8.4%), 1,8-cineole (6.7%), β-farnesene (5.4%), terpinen-4-ol (4.2%), α-terpineol (4.1%) and β-phellandrene (4.1%).Item Seasonal Variation Rates of Dust Fall at Motor Parks of University of Ilorin, Nigeria(Faculty of Engineering University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, 2019-03-18) Nwosu, F.O.; Olayinka, O.D.; Adebayo, S.A.; Akoshile, C.O.The enormous vehicular activities on the commercial motor park of University of Ilorin, Nigeria called for concern especially as there have been continuous increase of students and other users of the parks. This study was carried out to indicate the seasonal variation in the rate of dust fall at three motor parks in the permanent site of the University campus by using the single bucket sampling method. The study was carried out for five months each of wet and dry season periods. The sampling sites were PK1, PK2 and Cl. Gravimetric method was used to quantify the soluble, insoluble, volatile matter and ash. Volatile matter and ash were the component of insoluble dust and the highest rate of insoluble dust deposition was observed in January (2043.12 ± 41.4 and 284.1 ± 35.5 mg/m2/day) for PK2 and Cl and in November (1282.7 ± 64.9 mg/m2/day) for PK1 when their respective traffic density (1509.5 ± 72.1, 29.8 ± 1.2 and 1000.8 ± 48.3 vehicles per hours) was highest. The highest (32713.0 ± 1290.1 mg/m2/day) and lowest (70.6 ± 6.9 mg/m2/day) rate of soluble dust deposition in the study were observed at PK1 for September and February respectively which was suspected to be due to increase and decrease in the amount of rain fall. The Pearson Correlation showed that increases in traffic density were correlated with increases in the rate of insoluble dust fall at various sites and the relationship was in the stronger order of PK2 > PK1 > Cl. The motor parks ambient air was highly contaminate with soluble dust in the wet season and insoluble dust in the dry season their being values are more than the recommended 133 mg/m2/day.