{"id":15003,"date":"2017-03-10T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T10:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15003"},"modified":"2017-04-25T15:14:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T14:14:29","slug":"ikwelle-michael-chike","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ikwelle-michael-chike\/","title":{"rendered":"IKWELLE, Michael Chike"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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: &#8220;Wheat in Nigeria&#8221;; 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: nrcri@infoweb.abs.net; res: dir&#8217;s. House, NRCRI, Umudike, tel: 082-440237; e-m: Ikwelle@infoweb.abs.net; pha: Oraukwu Post Office, Idemili North Iga., Anambra State, Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2410],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15003","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-agriculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15003"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}