About

Ofosu-Budu Kwabena Godfred (PhD (Japan))

Education

Hiroshima University, Japan. Ph.D. 1993

Research Interest

Low soil fertility is a major constraint to food production to meet increasing demands of increasing population in Ghana. The use of inorganic fertilizer to supply nutrients to plants is constrained by high prices, distribution challenges. Therefore, the use of inorganic fertilizers in food production is very low approx. 10 kg/ha, among the lowest in developing countries. Agricultural activities generate plant and animal wastes that contain plant nutrients which can be recycled to compost/biochar to improve soil fertility. The use of compost and biochar as a means of promoting sustainability in food production and the nursery, under field conditions in mitigating GHG emissions in cereal crops production is under study.

The release of nutrients under organic farming or integrated fertility management system is different from inorganic fertilizer alone. Nutrient release is mediated by microbes under organic systems. It is important to have considerable knowledge of nutrient especially N availability from different organic amendments when applied to different soil types to enable the synchronization of nutrient release and especially N supply and crop N demand. It is therefore important to characterize the organic resources and predict their nutrient release potentials in different soils and for different crops for effective use in crop production.

Publications

1. Lemuel Ohemeng Mintah, Godfred Kwabena Ofosu-Budu, Nana Oduro Osei-Bonsu (2018).  Genotypic Variation in Yield and Yield Components of Plantain (Musa spp.) in Response to Containerized Planting Material and Mulching (2018). Agricultural Sciences, 2018, 9, 416-425

2. E. A. Ewusie, P. K. Kwapong, G. Ofosu-Budu, C. Sandrock, A. Akumah, E. Nartey5, C. Teye-Gaga, S. K. Agyarkwah and N. Adamtey (2018) Development of Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) in Selected Organic Market Waste Fractions in Accra, Ghana. Asian Journal of Biotechnology and Bioresource Technology 4(1): 1-16, 2018

3. E.A. Ewusie, P.K. Kwapong, G. Ofosu-Budu, C. Sandrock, A.M. Akumah, E.K. Nertey, C. Teye-Gaga, S.K. Agyakwah 2019. The black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae): Trapping and culturing of wild colonies in Ghana. Scientific African 5 (2019) 1-11