Staff Profiles: Agronomy and Horticulture
Dr Veronica Makuvaro
Position: Chairperson & 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 Misheck Chandiposha
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
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Food security
Climate change
Sugarcane
Horticulture
Field crops
Physiology
Post harvest technology of grain crops
Sustainable Agriculture and farming systems.
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 Tavagwisa Muziri
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Fruit Science
Postharvest,
Organic Agriculture.
Dr Brenda Tsungai Makaure (Manenji)
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Plant physiology,
Stress physiology,
Plant nutrition and Plant – microbe interactions
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 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).
Intercropping systems in Weed Management.
Growing media on nurseries
Ms Nency Munyuki
Position: Lecturer
Research interests:
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Agronomy,
Sustainable Agriculture,
Soil fertility
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 I 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
Mrs W M Pilime (Chiota)
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Plant nutrition,
Soil fertility,
Plant propagation
Mr S Muzemu
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
Mr Paul Chaibva
Position: Research Fellow
Research Interests
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Plant breeding
Plant bio-technology
Crop yield gap analysis
Resource-use efficiency,
Crop growth evaluation,
Cropping systems