B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D; lecturer, administrator; Born: February 16, 1951; Place: Ilesa; Hometown: Ikire; LGA: Irewole; State of origin: Osun; Married: Modupe Adetiba, July 27, 1978; No. of Children: one s, two d; <\/p>\n
EDUCATION: ADC Primary School, Okeada, Ikire, 1958-62; St Augustine Modern School, Ikire, 1963; Ayedade Grammar School, Ikire, 1964-68; University of Ife, Ile-Ife, 1969-73; University of Ibadan, 1974-76; University of Adelaide, South Australia, 1976-78;
\nCAREER: Snr. Research Officer\/Principal Research Officer\/Asst. Chief Research Officer, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigerian, Ibadan, 1978-82; Principal Lecturer, Agronomy, Osun State College of Education, Ila-Orangun, 1982-83; Dean, School of Agricultural Education, Osun State College of Education, Ha, 1982-83; Snr. Lecturer\/Coordinator, School of Agriculture, Federal University of Technology, Bauchi, 1983-84; Snr. Lecturer, Department of Crop Production, Federal University of Technology, Akure, 1984- 87; Reader, 1987-92; ag. Head, Department of Crop Production, 1990-91; visiting a-prof. Soil Science, University ofAgriculture, Makurdi, 1992-93; Head, Department of Crop Production, Federal University of Technology Akure, 1994-95; prof. Soil Science, since 1992; Dean, School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Akure, 1995-97; Head, Department of Soil Science, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, 1999-2000; Consultant\/Resource Person, Ondo State Agricultural Development Programme, 1988-94; asst. sec, Soil Science of Nigeria, 1992-97; sec. since 1997; Treasurer, International Soil Tillage Research Organisation, Nigeria Branch, 1992- 97; Editor, ISTRO-INFO Publication of International Soil Tillage Research Organisation, 1987-92; Newsletter Soil Science Society of Nigeria, 1992-97; Managing Editor, Applied Tropical Agriculture, 1996- 97; Associate Editor, Journal of Agricultural Technology, N.B.T.E. Kaduna; Consultant, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo; External Examiner: Federal College of Agriculture, Akure; University of Ibadan; Obafemi Awolowo University; Ahmadu Bello University; mm: Editorial Advisory Council, Agricultural Sciences, Adeyemi College of Education; Soil Science Society of Nigeria; West Africa Farming Systems Research Network; American Association for the Advancement of Science; The New York Academy of Sciences; publ: Has published 53 books; sc: sec Club 10, Ikire; hob: music, socials; off: Department of Crop Production, Federal University of Technology, P.M.B. 704, Akure, Ondo State; res: Federal University of Technology Quarters or Cocoa resident Institute of Nigeria Ibadan; pha: c\/o Baptist Church, Post Office Box 8, Ikire, Osun State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9746","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9746","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9746"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}