African Journal of Agricultural Research Volume 13 Number 4 25 January, 2018 ISSN 1991-637X
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African Journal of Agricultural Research Volume 13 Number 4 25 January, 2018 ISSN 1991-637X ABOUT AJAR The African Journal of Agricultural Research (AJAR) is published weekly (one volume per year) by Academic Journals. African Journal of Agricultural Research (AJAR ) is an open access journal that publishes high- quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in Engli sh, in all areas of agriculture including arid soil research and rehabilitation, agricultural gen omics, stored products research, tree fruit production, pesticide science, postharvest biology and technology, seed science research, irrigation, agricultural engineering, water resources management, marine sciences, agronomy, animal science, physiology and morphology, aquaculture, crop science, dairy science, entomology, fish and fisheries, fore stry, freshwater science, horticulture, poultry science, soil science, systematic biology, ve terinary, virology, viticulture, weed biology, agricultural economics and agribusiness. 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African Journal of A gricultural Research Table of Contents: Volume 13 Number 4, 25 January, 2018 ARTICLES Development of a crop growth subroutine for the Watershed Resources Management (WRM) model 129 Ogbu K. N., Mbajiorgu C. C., Ugwuoke K. and Ndulue E. L. Effect of planting date on tepary bean yield and yield components sown in Southern Botswana 137 Odireleng O. Molosiwa and Sylvia B. Kgokong Soybean hull and/or white oat grain for steers finished in feedlot 144 Guilherme Joner, Dari Celestino Alves Filho, Andrei Retamoso Mayer, Ana Paula Machado Martini, Gilmar dos Santos Cardoso, Camille Carijo Domingues, Mauren Burin da Silva, Patrícia Machado Martini, Joziane Michelon Cocco and Ivan Luiz Brondani Rhizome development in Sorghum bicolor × Sorghum halepense families in the tropical ecosystem of Uganda 151 Shakirah Nakasagga, Moses Biruma, Geoffrey Tusiime, Pheonah Nabukalu and Stan Cox Spatial econometric analysis of the main agricultural commodities produced in Central-West Region, Brazil 167 Alexander Bruno Pegorare, Paula Martin de Moraes, Reginaldo Brito da Costa, Urbano Gomes Pinto de Abreu, Dany Rafael Fonseca Mendes, Tito Belchior Silva Moreira, George Henrique de Moura Cunha and Michel Constantino Conilon plant growth response to sources of organic matter 181 Waylson Zancanella Quartezani, Ramon Amaro de Sales, Talita Aparecida Pletsch, Sávio da Silva Berilli, Adriel Lima Nascimento, Leonardo Raasch Hell, Euzileni Mantoanelli, Ana Paula Candido Gabriel Berilli, Ricardo Tobias Plotegher da Silva and Raniele Toso Demographic and socio-economic characteristics of cassava farmers influencing output levels in the Savannah Zone of Northern Ghana 189 Mohammed M. Abdul-kareem and Mehmet A. Şahinli Effect of application of flowering inhibitor on sweet sorghum 196 Eduardo do Valle Lozano, Letícia Murador Blanco, Giovanni Uema Alcantara, Lucas Conegundes Nogueira, Sandro Ciaramello and Gustavo Henrique Gravatim Costa African Journal of Agricultural Research Table of Contents: Volume 13 Number 4, 25 January, 2018 ARTICLES Maize leaf area estimation in different growth stages based on allometric descriptors 202 Sosdito Estevão Mananze, Isabel Pôças and Mario Cunha Genotype × environment interaction and yield stability of Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.) genotypes 210 Lemi Beksisa, Sentayew Alamerew, Ashenafi Ayano and Gerba Daba Vol. 13(4), pp. 129-136, 25 January, 2018 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR2017.12918 Article Number: 10E887A55774 African Journal of Agricultural ISSN 1991-637X Copyright ©2016 Research Author(s) retain the copyright of this article http://www.academicjournals.org/AJAR Full Length Research Paper Development of a crop growth subroutine for the Watershed Resources Management (WRM) model Ogbu K. N.1*, Mbajiorgu C. C.2, Ugwuoke K.3 and Ndulue E. L.4 1Department of Agricultural and Bioresources Engineering, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. 2Department of Agricultural and Bioresources Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. 3Department of Crop Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. 4Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada. Received 5 December, 2017; Accepted 2 January, 2018 Vegetation has a marked effect on runoff and soil moisture and plays an important the hydrologic cycle. The Watershed Resources Management (WRM) model, a process-based, continuous, distributed parameter simulation model developed for hydrologic and soil erosion studies at the watershed scale lack a crop growth component. As such, this model assumes a constant parameter values for vegetation and hydraulic parameters throughout the duration of hydrologic simulation. A crop growth algorithm based on the original plant growth model used in the Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model was developed for coupling to the WRM model. The developed model was tested for yield simulations using data from a field plot within the Oyun River basin, Ilorin, Nigeria. Model prediction closely matched observed values with R2 of 0.9 for the years under