B.Sc, PGD, M.Sc, Ph.D; agronomist; b: January 2, 1942; p: Oraukwu, ht: Oraukwu; Iga: Idemili North; so: Anambra; m: Victoria, May 8, 1982; nc: one s, two d; ed: St. Joseph's School, Oraukwu, 1949-56; Bishop Shanahan Secondary School, Orlu, 1957-61; University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1966-1973 (including civil war), Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1983-85; International Centre for Maize and Wheat Research CIMMNIT, Mexico, 1979-80; cr: Research Officer II, National Cereals Research Institute, Moor Plantation, Ibadan, Nigeria 1973; Research Officer I, Lake Chad Research Institute Maiduguri, 1978; snr. Research Officer, 1981; Principal Research Officer, (Breeding/Agronomy), 1983; asst. Chief Research Officer, in Charge of Crops and Horticulture Division 1986; Chief Research, Ngala Research Station and Coordinator, Farming Systems Research, 1989; asst. dir. LCRI Maiduguri 1993; ag. dir. LCRI, Maiduguri, 1994; dir. National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike, Abia State, 1998; mm: Agricultural Society of Nigeria; National Plant Protection Society of Nigeria; National and International Farming Systems Practitioners; West and Central Africa Millet Research Network and Award Winner of the Network, since 1989; Has won an international recognition and prize in a recent Int. Symposium on Root and Tuber Crops held in Kerala, India in January 2000 as the best and most versatile ch. Technical Session of that symposium; ah: Academic honours for generating most relevant technologies for farmers in the North East Zone of Nigeria by Leo Club, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria 1997; publ: "Wheat in Nigeria"; Production Processing and Utilization, Ramadam Press, Bauchi, 1990; Pearl Millet Resarch in Nigeria; Production, Processing Marketing and Utilization, Ramadan Press Bauchi, Nigeria, 1997; cw: My Institute (NPERI) Umudike won the best exhibitor price in the world food Day Exhibition in 1999 at Abuja Nigeria; sc: Grand Patron, Lawn Tennis Club, National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike; hob: Reading, music and lawn tennis; off: National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike; P.M.B 7006, Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria; tel: 082-440237; e-m: [email protected]; res: dir's. House, NRCRI, Umudike, tel: 082-440237; e-m: [email protected]; pha: Oraukwu Post Office, Idemili North Iga., Anambra State, Nigeria.
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