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Conferences / Workshop Attended: CONFERENCES ATTENDED SINCE JOINING THIS UNIVERSITY a) I attended the Horticultural Society of Nigeria 20th Annual Conference and Silver Jubilee, May 14-17-2002 (Ibadan). b) Nigerian Society for Plant Protection 30th Annual Conference and presented a paper “Identification of nematode pests associated with different cowpea verities” October 20th-24th, 2002 at University of Agriculture, Abeokuta c) I attended the 36th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Society of Nigeria and presented a paper “The use of maize as an indicator crop and in the reclamation of farm land laden with heavy metals as a result of crude oil pollution” October 20th-24th , 2002 at FUTO ,Imo state. d) I attended the 37th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Society of Nigeria (ASN) ,Nov.16-20,2003, at University of Calabar, Cross –rivers state. e) I attended the 38th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Society of Nigeria (ASN) ,Oct.17-21,2004, at College of Agriculture, Lafia, Nasarawa, State. f) I attended the 32nd Annual Conference of the Nigerian Society for Plant Protection (NSPP) at University of Port-Harcourt, Rivers state . May 15-20,2005. g) I attended the 39th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Society of Nigeria (ASN) at University of Benin, Benin City. Oct. 9-13th ,2005. h) I attended the 42nd Annual Conference of the Agricultural Society of Nigeria (ASN) at Ebony state University, Abakaliki. Oct. 19-23rd , 2008. i) I attended the International Conference on Global Food Crisis at Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo state, April, 19-24th , 2009. j) I attended the 43rd Conference of the Agricultural Society of Nigeria (ASN), Abuja, 20 – 23rd Oct. 2009. Paper presented: The effect of leaf spot of CAD on the yield of some cassava cultivars. k) I attended the 5th National Conference of Organic Agriculture project in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria. Nov.15 –19th,2009. FUTO, Owerri, Imo state. Paper presented: A Sustainable Approach to the Food Crisis in Nigeria. l) I attended the Horticultural Society of Nigeria 30th Annual Conference .Nov, 11th -15th , 2012 (Owerri). m) I attended the 6th National Annual conference of the Crop Science Society of Nigeria, at Federal University of Technology, Owerri from October 13th – 17th , 2019. SEMINARS / WORKSHOP ATTENDED : Seminar on Certification and regulations for food safety. (Sense and Nonsense) Wageningen, The Netherlands, 31st May, 2005. TRAINING COURSES ATTENDED : 1. International Training Programme on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Safety at Wageningen, Netherlands (May 23-July 1,2005) which includes the following courses; (i) Transition to Sustainable Agriculture (May 23 –June 3,2005) (ii) IPM Policy and Institutional Innovations (June 6- 17, 2005) (iii)Pesticides and Food Safety in IPM & GAP (Good Agricultural Practices), (June 20-July1,2005) 2. Short course in Advance Organic Agriculture, 1st UNAAB international Summer School programme on Organic Agriculture held at the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, September 13 – 24, 2010. 3. Electronic library resources training workshop on Research4life and TEEAL programmes, November 15 – 17, 2010 at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 4. Refresher course on Development of seed systems for root and tuber crops to enhance food security held in Kumasi, Ghana, 15-26 October 2012. |