Dr. Rebecca Yegon Publications

Publications

• Yego, N.C., Nyambane, C.O., Yegon, R., et al., 2025. Physicochemical and Heavy Metal Characterization of River Kapingazi in Embu County, Kenya. Research in Ecology. 7(3): 104–114. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30564/re.v7i3.9873 
• Kogo, T. K., Yegon, R., Nthiwa, D., & Migose, S. A. (2024). Strategies of positive deviants in fodder conservation among smallholder dairy farming systems in highlands and midlands of Kenya. Tropical Animal Health and Production, 56(8), 345. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-024-04189-3
• Itemo Irungu, F., Yegon, R., & Milkah Muniale, F. (2024). Determinants for rainwater harvesting adoption: a case study of smallholder farmers in Murang’a County, Kenya. - Read More
• Laub, M., Corbeels, M., Ndungu, S. M., Mucheru-Muna, M. W., Mugendi, D., Yegon, R., Waswa, W. Vanlauwe & Six, J. (2024). Shifting focus from external to in situ organic resources–The redesign of four tropical long-term experiments. European Journal of Agronomy, 157, 127194.
• Njiru, L., Yegon, R., Mwithiga, G., Micheni, A., Gitari, J., & Mairura, F. (2023) Restoring Soil Nutrient Stocks Using Local Inputs, Tillage and Sorghum-Green Gram Intercropping Strategies for Drylands in Eastern Kenya. Tillage and Sorghum-Green Gram Intercropping Strategies for Drylands in Eastern Kenya.
• Mochache, M. O., Yegon, R., & Ngetich, O. (2021). Performance of vermicomposted wastes for tomato (Lycopersicon Esculentum Mill.), production: A case study of Embu, Kenya.
• Mochache, M., Yegon, R., & Wakindiki, I. I. C. (2020). Market town household solid waste management: A case study of Embu, Kenya. Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 24(1), 105-109.
• Yegon, R., Isaboke, H. N., Mrema, G. C., & Mtakwa, P. (2020). ECONOMICS OF PLANTING PITS UNDER SORGHUM AND PIGEON PEA IN SEMI-ARID AREAS OF EASTERN KENYA. Agricultural Socio-Economics Journal, 20(1), 15-22.
• Mochache, M., Yegon, R., & Ng’etich, O. (2019). Vermicomposting kitchen, municipal market and tea factory wastes using Eisenia fetida earthworms. Int J Environ Agric Biotech, 4(3), 865-873.
• Phiri, A. T., Muindi, E. M., Omollo, J. O., Yegon, R., & Kausiwa, D. (2016). Inoculated soybean yields response to nitrogen and phosphorus application.
• Yegon, R., Mtakwa, P. W., Mrema, G. C., & Ngetich, F. K. (2016). Planting pits’ effects on soil nutrients in a sorghum and pigeon pea rotation in semi-arid areas of eastern Kenya.
• Wakindiki, I. C., & Yegon, R. (2011). Effect of decomposition intensity of incorporated chickpea manure on stability and saturated hydraulic conductivity of a clay loam and clay soil.