Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Crop and Pasture Production from The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria
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Dr. Nnaemeka J. Anyanwu is a Nigerian registered animal scientist (RAS) and a member of the Forage Science and Animal Nutrition Research Programme, Federal University of Technology Owerri. He has over 20 years of pre -and post- doctoral engagement in feed and forage crop evaluation, crop-livestock systems with a strong nexus with their interactions. Since 2000, he has been involved in farm animal and feed resources research, including forage crop evaluation, integrated small ruminant-crop production systems, forage based poultry feed evaluation, soil fertility and nutrient cycling, soil physical and chemical properties amendments/amelioration and plant beneficial responses to organic mineral nutrients as a function of manure type. He has expertise in investigating animal responses to changes in feed, environmental and other physiological conditions. He also studies the role of climatic variables and its implications in feed-forage yield as well as the complex interactions of nutrient variability with associated climatic variables. An important aspect of his expertise involves data management and analysis. Prior to 2009 he was a Project Manager of the World Bank assisted National Fadama Development Project (Imo State Fadama II Project), a poverty alleviation programme aimed at sustainably supporting farmers and rural folks through provision of grants for productive agricultural enterprises. He also worked as a Research Supervisor at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), both in Ibadan, Nigeria. He joined the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria as Asst. Lecturer (2005), became Senior Lecturer (2017) and rose to the rank of Associate Professor (2021). He is a Fellow of Institute of Agribusiness Management of Nigeria (IAMN). He has published over 30 journal articles, book chapters and technical reports and has made presentations at national and international conferences.
