The design and construction of a centrifugal grain grinder, for my final year project, was undertaken to promote the grinding of various food grains for human nutrition, improve on the livelihood and increase grain production ...

The purpose of this project is to develop a prototype of a 2-rowmanual rice transplanting machine, this study is to integrate the existing transplanting methods which are tedious, time consuming and laborious hence a ...

Tail water is the excess water that runs off the field at the low end of furrows, boarder strips, basins and flooded areas during surface irrigation. Tail water is loaded with agrochemicals like fertilizers, pesticides, ...

Irish potatoes is one of the important food crop grown in the slopes of mount elgon and western parts of Uganda. They are rich sources of carbohydrates, and are grown on fertile soils for greater yield in Uganda (2011.) ...

Maize (Zea mays L) is one of the world's important cereal crops and a major staple food in East Africa. In addition to its being an important animal feed, it's also a source of income. Shelling is the process of removing ...

Cocoa is one of the most important cash crops grown in Uganda after coffee, tea with a total land area of 25000 hectares covered by cocoa plants (www.monitor.co.ug). The crop grows in a limited geographical zone of about ...

Upland rice is rice grown on dry land NERICA varieties, particularly NERICA 4, have been well adopted, grown continually in wide agro-ecological conditions in mid-altitude ecology (mainly between 800-1400 meters above Sea ...

This thesis presents the design of hybrid solar wind turbine system for pumping underground water for Busitema University by utilizing both solar and wind renewable energy to reduce on the high costs of pumping water and' ...

Fertilizers are defined as chemicals, and minerals that supply one or more essential plant nutrients. Substantive use of fertilizer is a prerequisite for the success of efforts to improve agricultural productivity and hence ...

Human population increase, economic development, climate change and other drivers alter water resources availability and use resulting in increased risks of extreme low and high flows, drastically altered flow regimes; ...