The abundance of indigenous soil rhizobia can determine whether a legume would respond to inoculation or not. This study was therefore conducted to determine the population size of indigenous soil rhizobia nodulating ...

Spider plant (Cleome gynandra L.) is an African indigenous vegetable with great potential to improve food and nutritional security and incomes among resource-poor communities in Africa. However, there is limited information ...

Nuclear charge radius is an important macroscopic variable that determines the magnitude and extent of the Coulomb potential within the boundaries of the atomic nucleus. An expression for the modified Coulomb potential ...

Recently, there has been public outrage and media report on presence of heavy metal residues and pathogenic contamination in commonly consumed commodities including fruits and vegetables in Kenya. Chemical and microbial ...

Globally Online Banking has gained worldwide acceptance as a new delivery channel for performing banking transactions. In Kenya 44.12% of the population has access to online banking with majority accessing the service ...

Incorporation of legume residues in soil is a low cost option for improving soil fertility, but its effectiveness depends on residue quality. A study was conducted for two seasons (2007 and 2008) to determine the decomposition ...

Maize and dry bean are the most important food crops that feed over 85% of Kenyan households. However, the productivity of these crops is low due to the high costs of land preparation and weed control, soil infertility and ...

The cost of inorganic fertilizers is prohibitively expensive for resource challenged small holder farmers in the coastal lowland Kenya. Use of organic fertilizers has the potential to improve the productivity of maize-cowpea ...

Root rot is a major constraint to bean production in western Kenya causing poor crop stand and high yield losses. The disease is caused by a complex different pathogens which together exhibit synergistic effects. The ...

The influence of organic manures in nutrient uptake and seed quality of sesame is not fully known. In this context, a study was conducted in northeastern Uganda in 2013 and 2014 short rains, and 2014 long rains to investigate ...