Staff Profiles: Agronomy and Horticulture
Mrs Wendy Mutsa Pilime (Chiota)
Position: Chairperson
Research Interests
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Climate smart agriculture
Climate resilience and vulnerability studies for rural farmers
Integrated soil fertility management
Plant propagation
Dr Antony Maodzeka
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research interests
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Plant systems biology
Plant molecular engineering
Plant physiology
Dr Pepukai Manjeru
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research Interest:
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Plant Breeding (breeding for biotic and abiotic resistance, breeding for improved nutritional value in staple crops),
Seed Systems and stress Physiology.
Dr Veronica Makuvaro
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Agronomy, agro-meteorology (crop bias);
Climate change adaptation and mitigation;
Resilience building to climate change and smallholder agriculture.
Dr Innocent Pahla
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Biological control options, agents, predators, parasitoids, and plant-insect pest interactions and biopesticides (botanical pesticides).
Sustainable production systems
Dr Brenda Tsungai Makaure
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Plant physiology,
Stress physiology,
Plant nutrition and Plant – microbe interactions
Mr Mapwanyire Clapperton
Position: Lecturer
Research interests
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Biostatistics
Epidemiology
Monitoring and Evaluation
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Mr Mugobo Wilson
Position: Lecturer
Research interests
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Pesticide Residue Evaluations in Horticultural Products
Production of Botanical Pesticides
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Insect Push-Pull Technologies in Vegetables
Detection and Isolation of Smut Fungal Pathogens in Cereal Crops.
Mrs Nency Munyuki
Position: Lecturer
Research interests:
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Agronomy,
Sustainable Agriculture,
Soil fertility
Plant nutrition
Mr Tafadzwa Talent Haripo
Position: Lecturer
Research interests:
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Crop Protection (Weed Science, Allelopathy, Plant Pathology and Entomology).
Natural Pesticides (use of bioherbicides and biopesticides).
Climate change and agriculture.
Intercropping systems in Weed Management.
Growing media on nurseries
Mr Tendai Madanzi
Position: Lecturer
Research interests:
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Cropping Systems and Agronomy
Agroecology
Seed Systems
Climate Change and Adaptation
Agroforestry Systems and Carbon plus Nitrogen Management in Cropping Systems
Mr Madhara Temba Mabarani
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Crop yield gap analysis
Resource-use efficiency,
Crop growth evaluation,
Cropping systems
Mr Muzemu Simbarashe
Position: Lecturer
Research interests:
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Crop protection research strategies using biological control options, agents, predators, parasitoids
Plant-insect pest interactions and biopesticides (botanical pesticides).
Miss Dacyl N Muchemwa
Position: Field Technician
Research interests:
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Plant breeding,
molecular plant biology,
Plant tissue culture.
Mr Masimba Ncube
Position: Laboratory Technician
Research interests:
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Genomics and Molecular Biology
Microbiology and Biotechnology
Root Exudates and Plant Propagation
Genetics and Plant Breeding