1. APPRAISAL OF THE PROBLEM FACED BY SMALL FARM HOLDERS IN ACCESSING LOAN FACILITIES
EXCERPT FROM THE STUDY
Nigerian agriculture has high potential but actualizing it depends on concerted efforts to address the major challenges confronting the sector which include among others; access to finance by small scale farmers. This problem has been compounded w...
2. EFFECT OF FOREST RESOURCES EXPLOITATION ON ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF FARMING HOUSEHOLDS
ABSTRACT
This study analyzed the effect of forest resources exploitation on economic well-being of farming households. In carrying out the study, five specific objectives and a hypothesis were developed to guide the study. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 155 rural hous...
3. PRELIMINARY PHYTOCHEMICAL AND ANTIMICROBIAL SCREENING OF FLOWER AND STALK OF Mangifera indica (opioro mango)
INTRODUCTION
Origin: Mango (Mangifera indica) (Opioro) is a native to Southern Asia especially Burma and Eastern India. It is a member of cashew family (Anacardiacee) on of the most important and widel...
4. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PROCESSING AND MARKETING OF CASHEW PRODUCTS
ABSTRACT
Cashew processing using manual techniques, was started in Nigeria in the first half of the twentieth century. It was exported from there to the wealthy western markets, particularly the United States. In the 1960s some of the producing countries in East Africa...
5. CHARACTERISATION AND APPLICATION OF NATIVE AND CROSS-LINKED CASHEW (Anacardium occidentale L.) GUM IN TABLETTING
ABSTRACT
The exudate from cashew tree, referred to as cashew gum (CG) had been investigated for use as binder in conventional tablet formulations. In this study, cross-linked derivatives of the gum were synthesized and investigated for their physicochemical and physicotechnical properti...
6. SURFACE ACTIVITY AND RELEASE PROPERTIES OF SOME TROPICAL GUMS IN ARTEMETHER AND ARTESUNATE SODIUM TABLET FORMULATIONS
ABSTRACT
Plant gums are natural polymers with low toxicity, high biodegradability and high compatibility with drugs making them useful as pharmaceutical excipients in solid, semi-solid and liquid formulations. This work was aimed at evaluating the surface activity and release properties...
7. NIGERIAN FEDERALISM AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY
Background of the Study
Federalism, according to K.C Wheare, is the method of dividing powers so that the central and regional governments are each, within a sphere, coordinate and independent. He said that the characteristics of this Federal Principle are the division...
