Saturday, September 28, 2013

Biotech Project Selection 2013/2014

Mushroom project
We have decided to do mushroom growing again due to the many benefits it has in spite of the many failures we have had in all the previous trials. We are determined this time round to see at least one mushroom body fruit because we are prepared to take extreme care by putting into consideration the challenges we encountered before.
We realize that we the Biotechnologists are the ones to help improve conditions under which mushrooms and other related foods are grown to gain much more yields but we can achieve this, if we have no practical feel of it and more so we cannot get motivated to research how to improve the yield when we do not know how good it is to earn from this kind of work.

Soap making
Our theme this academic year in Biotech and Research Club is “getting thoroughly equipped for job creation”. We therefore have selected soap making to be one of our projects we are going to run this year because it supports or theme.

Making pellets feeds for fish and rabbit and designing a computer program for it
Having realized the growing demand for fish and rabbit feeds in form of pellets in the country, the club has found it important to venture into the activity of making the pellets. We believe that it is going to be a big foundation for scientific research at Kyambogo University after the members have gained the basic knowledge of making this kind of feeds. After designing a well-balanced recipe for our feeds, we plan to write a computer program me in corroboration with the IT students that will always help us to calculate the ratios reflected in our designed recipe and any other standard recipe that we may find better than the one we will have formed. In other words for example if one has an ingredient containing a specific food value and he has its weight but does not know the corresponding masses of other ingredients that he should mix, our program will be able to help him figure out what mass of which ingredient he is supposed to mix on which scale of production.

Ecology of Kyambogo project

This project has been carried forward from the previous academic year because it was half way done. We therefore believe it will be complete by the end of this academic year and a full report written. Since a little work is left for this project, we have added three other activities to it that will feel the remaining time of the year.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Characteristics of Spent Mushroom Substrate

The typical composition of spent mushroom substrate fresh from a mushroom house will vary slightly. Since raw materials and other cultural practices change, each load of fresh spent substrate has a slightly different element and mineral analysis. Therefore the characteristics shown in Table I indicate a range of values for each component. Sometimes, fresh substrate is placed in fields for at least one winter season and then marketed as "weathered" mushroom soil. This aged material has slightly different characteristics because the microbial activity in the field will change the composition and texture. The salt content may change during the aging period. If you have any specific questions concerning characteristics of either fresh or aged spent substrate, please contact your local Cooperative Extension agent.

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