Professor Ekeleme Friday

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Friday Ekeleme, a Nigerian citizen, is the Principal Investigator, Sustainable Weed Management Technologies for Cassava Systems in Nigeria (IITA-CWMP). He obtained his PhD in Weed Biology and Ecology and an MSc (Weed Ecology) and BSc (Botany) from the University of Ife, Nigeria in 1999, 1986, and 1983, respectively. Recently, Friday worked as a Professor of Weed Science/Director, University Advancement (2004–2013) at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike in Abia State. He was also a Senior Lecturer at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. From 1989 to 2001 he worked as a Research Associate in Weed Science at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the current President of the Weed Science Society of Nigeria.<ref></ref> Sometimes in 2016, an Ogun-On-farm demonstrations in Ogun state, under the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) managed Cassava Weed Management Project (CWMP) have produced average yields of 27 tons per hectare surpassing the national average of about eight tonnes per hectare. The demos were conducted in 2016 in the three senatorial districts of Ogun states using an integrated weed control package developed by the IITA-CWMP. Dr Patience Olorunmaiye, a scientist at the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB), while presenting the results during the Joint Quarterly Review Meeting of the project in Abeokuta, said the yield from the demonstration plots were impressive and a proof of the concept that if farmers adopt improved weed management practices, they would be better off. Professor Ekeleme said the highest yield from the demonstration farms was 32 tonnes per hectare with 96 per cent of the demonstration farms recording more than 20 tonnes per hectare.

Professor Friday Ekeleme, Principal Investigator of the IITA-CWMP said the results clearly show that weeds were a major factor limiting the potential of cassava in Africa.

Ekeleme said in the last four years, the IITA-CWMP with funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation made a bold decision to unravel the puzzle of weeds menace in cassava.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>

Recently, The National Food and Drug Administration Control lauded his team for training farmers on how to properly dispose herbicides containers.<ref name="The Guardian (Nigeria) - 14 June 2017 - NAFDAC lauds IITA for training 659 farmers on weed control">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
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