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 Brenda Tsungai Makaure (Manenji)
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Plant physiology,
Stress physiology,
Plant nutrition and Plant – microbe interactions
Dr Tavagwisa Muziri
Position: Deputy Dean
Research Interests:
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Fruit Science
Postharvest,
Organic Agriculture.
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
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