Mohammad Mobarak Hossain, Mahfuza Begum, Abul Hashem, Md. Moshiur Rahman et al.
Cropping under conservation agriculture (CA) has become increasingly attractive among farmers in recent years. However, weed control may be more difficult during the transition to CA from conventional establishment methods due to the reduction in tillage intensity. Conversely, CA changes to weed dyn...
Mohammad Shadiqur Rahman, Shahjahan, Md. Mahfuzul Haque, Saleha Khan
Euglenophyte bloom is a common problem in most of the aquaculture ponds in Bangladesh. In the present study we conducted an experiment to control euglenophyte bloom for achieving better fish production using duckweed (Lemna minor) and lime. The experiment was carried out using four treatments, i.e.,...
Shad Mahfuz, Shenfei Long, Xiangshu Piao
SUMMARYSupplementing broiler diets with medicinal mushrooms is considered an effective alternative to prophylactic antibiotics. Feeding certain mushrooms may have beneficial effects on gut health in broilers, whereby trials have shown weight gain was increased about 5.2% when feeding 5% of the Heric...
Chondhon Bormon, G. Akib, Ariful Islam Rifat, Md. Monir Hossain et al.
Oyster mushroom stem residue, a by-product with medicinal and nutritive values, might be a prospective feed supplement in poultry nutrition. The study focused on evaluating the impact of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) stem residue (OMSR) powder supplementation on growth performance, carcass t...
Md Golam Akib, Al Ibne Rifat, Chondhon Bormon, Amitush Dutta et al.
The effect of dietary inclusion of Moringa oleifera leaf powder (MLP) on the growth, meat quality, carcass characteristics, hematobiochemical profile, and cecal bacteria of broiler chicken was investigated in this research trial. In this study, 192-day-old Arbor Acre broiler chicks were assigned in ...
Masuda Akther, ABM Mahfuz ul Alam, J. D'Silva, Aminul Islam Bhuiyan et al.
A total of 1432 hilsa shad, Tenualosa ilisha (=Hilsa ilisha) from 11 fresh water, brackish water and marine localities in Bangladesh yielded 13 adult Goezia bangladeshi n. sp., all specimens being found in the intestine of a single fish host caught in the lower Ganges. A total of 2372 Goezia juvenil...
Shuyuan Wang, Shad Mahfuz, Hui Song
The present study was undertaken to investigate the effects of Flammulinavelutipes stem base (FVS) on growth performance, microbial flora and volatile fatty acids of growing layers under heat stress condition. A total of 72 ISA Brown hens were randomly divided into six treatments: thermoneutral temp...
Hong‐Seok Mun, Muhammad Ammar Dilawar, Shad Mahfuz, Keiven Mark B. Ampode et al.
This experiment evaluated the performance of a combined geothermal heat pump and solar system (GHPS). A GHPS heating system was installed at a pig house and a comparative study was carried out between the environmentally friendly renewable energy source (GHPS) and the traditional heating method usin...
Shad Mahfuz, Md Sodrul Islam, Mohammed Rashed Chowdhury, Saiful Islam et al.
A total sixteen female Black Bengal goats (BBG) considering average live weight were randomly divided into four equal treatments to study the effect of different level of concentrates supplementation on production and reproduction performance of BBG. The animals were assigned to adlibitum green gras...
Mohammed Rashed Chowdhury, MMH Khan, Shad Mahfuz, M. A. Baset
The objective of the study was to evaluate the effects of spices on forage utilization and nitrogen (N) emission using in vitro and in vivo approach. A 6 × 5 factorial triplicate arrangement was used to assess the in vitro degradability of rice straw with control (without spices) and individual (40 ...
Shad Mahfuz, Hui Song, Zhongjun Liu
This study was conducted to represent the role of Flammulina velutipes stem in laying hen ration for improving laying performances and health status of layer chicken. Flammulina velutipes is one of the most popular edible mushroom in Asian countries and known as winter mushroom. Inclusion of Flammul...
Tengfei He, Jiayu Ma, Shad Mahfuz, Yuhui Zheng et al.
Abstract BACKGROUND This experiment was to investigate the effect of dietary live yeast (LY, 1 × 10 10 CFU g −1 ) supplementation on serum metabolic parameters, meat quality as well as antioxidant enzyme activity of transported broilers. A total of 192 one‐day‐old broilers were randomly assigned to ...
Shad Mahfuz, Hui Song, Jiali Wei, M Chen et al.
The possibility of using mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) stem waste (FVW) in layer diets was explored in this study. A total of 180, 40-week-old ISA Brown laying hens were randomly assigned to 5 groups, with 6 replications of 6 birds for each group. Layers were fed a standard basal diet as control; ...
Dipali Rani Gupta, M. K. Kabir, Oliul Hassan, Abdullah As Sabir et al.
Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) was introduced to Bangladesh in 1996 and has gained remarkable acceptance. However, with the expansion of acreage, anthracnose crown rot (ACR) is posing a challenge to strawberry growers. In March 2016, typical ACR symptoms were observed on cultivar Strawberry Festiv...
P. K. Shadhu Khan, Mahfuzul Hoque
Global interest in renewable energy resources from organic solid wastes has increased, as there is a huge amount of energy locked in these wastes. A study on the potential of such energy resources is presented in the paper. It is estimated that a Solid-Waste fuelled Power Plant (SWFPP) of 8-MW is fe...