Browsing by Author "Adeleke, E.A."

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    BUSH BURNING AND RURAL AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN ASA L.G.A., KWARA STATE
    (Published by the Department of Sociology, Ibrahim Babangida University, P.M.B. 11, Lapai, Niger State, 2015) Tunde, A.M.; Adeleke, E.A.
    The common method of clearing agricultural land in Nigeria by small scale farmers is bush burning. However, bush burning has its implication on land. The survey reported in this study focuses on assessing the implications of bush burning on agricultural production and land in Afon district of Asa Local Government Area, Kwara state, Nigeria. Copies of structured questionnaire were used to sample a total of two hundred (200) farmers. The study employs the use of descriptive statistical techniques such as simple percentages and cross tabulation to present the data collected. the result revealed that 80% of the farmers were engaged in bush burning to clear the land for cultivation and they do so because they believe it is the cheapest and easiest way to clear land. The result further reveals that 95% of the respondents have experienced bush burning destroyed their farms. About 5% claimed bush burning has never destroyed their farm land and believed bush burning is not causing any menace to farm land. The study concludes by giving recommendations that there should be adequate awareness created by the Government on the menace of bush burning on the agricultural land and that better alternatives to clearing of land for farming should be introduced to the farmers such as the use of tractors at subsidized rate.
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    ECOLOGICAL ZONE AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
    (STAMFORD LAKE (PVT) LTD., 2017) Rhoda Mojisola, Olanrewaju; Adeleke, E.A.; Akpan, P.
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    EFFECTS OF CLIMATE ON CHICKEN PRODUCTION IN ILORIN, KWARA STATE, NIGERIA
    (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2016) Rhoda Mojisola, Olanrewaju; Tilakasir, S.L.; Adeleke, E.A.
    This paper explores the role which climate plays on the severity of diseases and seasonal mortality rate of chicken in the guinea savanna ecological zone of Kwara State, Nigeria. Data on climate and mortality rate of chicken collected over a period of 23 years (1991-2013) were partitioned according to characteristics weather types. Correlation and simple regression methods were used to analyse the data. The results of the analyses showed that weather types of each season affect outbreak of various diseases and mortality rate differently. In the dry season weather types outbreak of Newcastle and Gumboro diseases prevailed mostly during harmattan when mortality rate of chicken exhibited a strong positive relationship of O. 711 with rainfall and a strong negative relationship of 0.604 with maximum temperature. The last two months of dry season (March-April) witnessed the reverse of the above but with Newcastle disease and heat stress plaguing chicken production. The most prevalent chicken disease of rainy season in the study area is Coccidiosis. During the first weather type of wet season (two months before August break) mortality rate of chicken exhibited a strong positive relationship of 0.861 and 0.845 before August break, 0.775 and 0.894 during August break with both rainfall and relative humidity. However the relationship was negative with both maximum and minimum temperatures. Suggestions are made on how to manage both major weather types and poultry operation for efficient poultry farm development in the tropics.
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    RAINFALL PATTERNS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
    (Published by Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ilorin, Nigeria., 2018-03-10) Adeleke, E.A.; Tilakasiri S.L.; Atife, O. U.
    Climate is the accumulated and average weather patterns of a locality or region; the statistical properties of atmospheric variables including temperature, precipitation, and wind. The full description is based on long term statistics and includes extremes or deviations from the norm. There is increasing evidence that precipitation patterns have changed worldwide as a result of atmospheric responses to climate change (UNEP, 2007). Data required for this work is rainfall amount measured in millimeters (mm) for twelve months of each year. The rainfall data spanned thirty-five years between 1975 and 2010 for each of the states i.e. Kano and Delta states. The data were sourced from the archival records of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) headquarters in Oshodi, Lagos state. In order to analyze the obtained data, both descriptive and inferential statistics will be used for this study. Rainfall was found to be negatively skewed for Kano and positively skewed for Warri. It was observed that rainfall pattern at Warri was heterogeneous, while that of Kano was homogeneous with 89.5per cent and 10.7per cent respectively Thus, there is significant evidence of Climate change in the areas that would cause more rainfall in annual totals and consequently reinforce present increasing trends. Since temperature varies in this region; further study is necessary, using temperature and other climatic parameters, to assess climate change and give a more vivid understanding of the weather pattern of the areas.