Dr. Reimer Christian (Facilitator): The Department of Animal, Aquaculture and Range Sciences (DAARS) in collaboration with the Institute of Farm Animal Genetics of the Federal Research Institute in Germany, is cordially inviting you to a public lecture that to be held on Monday 19th December 2022 at DAARS Postgraduate Lecture Room, from 10:00 am to […]
By Shija et. al. (2022) From the Department of Animal, Aquaculture and Range Sciences The ability of smallholder dairy farming systems (SHDFS) to achieve desirable lactation-curve characteristics is constrained or reduced by environmental stresses. Under stressful production environments in the tropics, the better lactation-curve characteristics in smallholder dairy farms are a result of improved dairy […]
By Jacob Mosenda Education writer/journalist with The Citizen Mwananchi Communication Limited SUA’s vision of being a leading university in the provision of quality knowledge, skills and innovations in agriculture and allied sciences was yet again actualised on the main campus (Edward Moringe) situated 3km south of Morogoro Municipality. With the mission to undertake training, research in […]
Urban pigeons go wild after thousands of years of domestication Pigeon is a bird family that is distributed worldwide with exception of the Sahara Desert, Antarctica and the high Arctic. Pigeons are considered as one of the most intelligent of bird species and the most physically adept creatures in the animal kingdom. The bird has […]
Elon Musk’s internet service Starlink is set to be available in the country in the first quarter of 2023, with analysts cautiously saying the new development will boost the digital economy. The service, which is owned by the SpaceX Company, has been providing internet connectivity using thousands of satellites in space that communicate with designated […]
Scientists led by researchers from the Transmission: Zero team at Imperial College London have engineered mosquitoes that slow the growth of malaria-causing parasites in their guts, and prevent transmission of the disease to humans. The mosquitoes carry a genetic modification that causes them to produce compounds in the gut that stunt the growth of the […]
The Department of Animal, Aquaculture and Range Sciences is pleased to inform the scientific community that, our PhD candidate Mang’era Samwel Mnyoro has successfully defended his PhD today (16th of November, 2022). The tittle of his PhD study is “DEVELOPING A COST-EFFECTIVE RECIRCULATING AQUACULTURE SYSTEM UNIT USING LOCALLY AVAILABLE MEDIA AS BIOFILTERS FOR REMOVING AMMONIA […]
About the author: David Dawson Maleko is a lecturer, researcher and consultant at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, East Africa. He has a Ph.D. degree in the field of Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystems Management from the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania. He holds an M.Sc. in Conservation and Land Management from Bangor […]
SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE College of Agriculture Department of Animal, Aquaculture and Range Sciences Notice of PhD Defense The Department of Animal, Aquaculture and Range Sciences (DAARS) is inviting you to a public PhD VIVA-VOCE in respect of Mr. Mang’era Samwel Mnyoro on Wednesday 16th of November, 2022. The Topic of his Thesis “DEVELOPING A […]