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"The Vo-Ag Program of the World-Bank-Supported Experimental Agricultural High Schools in the Philippines"
The main objective of the study was to determine the relationship between some factors and achievements in the supervised farming program as the core of instruction in vocational agriculture in the experimental agricultural high... Read more.PhD (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"A Comparative Growth Analysis of Intercrop and Monoculture Plantings of Rice and Corn"
Field experiments were conducted in the dry and wet seasons to study the physiological responses to varying plant populations and row spacings of rice and corn in mono culture and intercrop plantings. In the dry-season intercrops, rice decreased... Read more.PhD in Agronomy (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"A Comparative Study on Saccharification Methods and Alcohol Production from Starches"
Saccharification methods using mineral acids, commercial pure enzymes from malt and bacteria and crude enzyme extract from Aspergillus oryzae NIST 3038 were tried on cassava, corn and sweet potato starches containing 95.0, 97.5 and 77.7% starch dry... Read more.MS in Food Science and Technology (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"An Agro-Economic Analysis of the Efficiency of Some Cultural Energy Inputs for Lowland Rice Production"
The efficiency of cultural energy inputs used in the traditional and the modern cultivating systems of lowland rice production, particularly those for nitrogen fertilization (VCEI-N) and weed control (VCEI-W), were pared during the 1975 dry and... Read more.PhD (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"An Assessment of the Productivity and Utilization of UPLB Forestry Graduates, 1931-1974: An Investment Approach."
The study attempted to assess the economic productivity and utilization of BSF and Ranger Certificate graduates of UPLB-CF. Basic data used in the rate of return analysis were earnings of the graduates and the costs of their forestry schooling... Read more.PhD (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Analysis of Demand for Fertilizer in Thailand"
Main objectives of the study were to determine fertilizer demand and the factors affecting it, and to estimate price elasticity of fertilizer demand and cross elasticity of factors affecting demand. Two models, the traditional and the... Read more.PhD (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Blood Gonadotrophic Activity in Carabao Heifer During the Estrous Cycle"
Day-old Single Comb White Leghorn chicks were used in an experiment to assess the effects of the follicle stimulating hormone (FHS), luteinizing hormone (LH) and blood gonadotrophic hormone from carabao heifer undergoing the estrous cycle. ... Read more.MS (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Chemical, Biological, and Integrated Biochemical Control of Meloidogyne incognita."
Three sets of experiments were conducted to study the responses of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita to three types of control measures: chemical, using four nematicides; biological,using three nematode-trapping fungi; and integrated... Read more.PhD (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Cut Scheduling in Industrial Forest Plantations by Linear Programming"
The study aimed mainly to develop a functional linear programming model to solve simultaneously the problem of cut scheduling and forest plantation development. The model was applied to a hyphotethical forest, using pertinent data from Nasipit Lumber... Read more.MS (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Effect of Cultivar and Pre-Processing Storage Conditions on the Quality of Canned Corn Niblet"
‘Glutinous Synthetic 22’ and ‘PH801 Sweet Corn’ cultivars were studied to determine carbohydrate metabolism during different storage conditions and its effect on the quality of the processed products. Both cultivars... Read more.MS (University of the Philippines Los Baños)