DISCOVERY

• Home
• Archive
• Aim & Scope
• For Authors
• Manuscript Submission
• Contact Us

Volume 56, Issue 291, March, 2020

About the Cover

Enhancement of farmers’ awareness is essential in determining and planning adaptation options in farming activities. It inverts a critical situation and concern among smallholder farmers where vulnerability is high due to low ability to adapt. The study employed a survey method to collect both qualitative and quantitative data using household survey, key informant, Focus group discussion and field observation. Then the data organized and analysed using content and trend analysis of qualitative data, while the quantitative data were analysed by using Microsoft Excel and SPSS software. The results indicate a problem in conveying opportunities in farming production across the zone and the need for understanding the challenges and opportunities as essential in formulating adaptation options and minimizing adverse effects on agricultural production. It revealed the need for strengthening the capacity of farmers and institutions for identifying and assessing the challenges within different farming system across agro-ecological zonesthrough educating farmers and other relevant stakeholders on improving livelihoods, productivity and agricultural production. Such knowledge and initiatives require an appropriate package of information and support to meet the challenges, uncertainties and exploit opportunities in agricultural production. The study suggested the need for understanding the challenges, information and knowledge needed for an effective response to the changing climate.

Table of Contents

Previous | Next

SCIENCE

Velocity distribution of electrons along the symmetry axis of Quadrupole Penning trap

Dyavappa BM

The velocity distribution of electrons along the symmetry axis is measured by measuring the farther end cap electrode current with negative bias voltage applied across thoriated tungsten filament

Discovery, 2020, 56(291), 138-149

Full Text | PDF

Challenges and opportunities for extenuation and alteration in the farming production across the gradient of Rungwe District, Tanzania

Brown Gwambene

Enhancement of farmers’ awareness is essential in determining and planning adaptation options in farming activities. It inverts a critical situation and concern among smallholder farmers where vulnerability is high due to low ability to adapt

Discovery, 2020, 56(291), 150-161

Full Text | PDF

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Mother tongue (4) usage among children in the first three years of primary education in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council

Abbas Mohammed

The research assessed the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction in primary schools in Maiduguri metropolitan Council of Borno State, with particular reference to five primary schools

Discovery, 2020, 56(291), 162-167

Full Text | PDF

SCIENCE

Effect of aqueous Piliostigma thonningii leaf extracts on the hematological and serum biochemical indices of broiler chicken

Alagbe J.O, Sharma D.O, Xing Liu

Three hundred one-day-old broiler chicks (Ross 308) were used to evaluate the effect of aqueous Piliostigma thonningii leaf extracts (PTE) on the some hematological and serum biochemical parameters of broiler chicken.

Discovery, 2020, 56(291), 168-175

Full Text | PDF