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DR PETER CALEB OTIENO

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PERSONAL DETAILS
Designation
PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGIST II
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Job Category
Non-Teaching
Phone Number
+254721327263
Alternative Phone No.
+254736365184
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Agriculture
Directorate / Dept
DEPT OF CROPS, HORT AND SOILS
HORTICULTURE
Office Extension No.
N/A
Address
P.O.BOX 536-20115
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
  1. PhD, in Horticulture
  2. MSc, Horticulture
  3. BSc.Horticulture
  4. Higher Diploma in Applied Biology
  5. Diploma in Applied Biology
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
  1. Plant biosysteatics at East Africs Herbarium,Nairobi
  2. Postharvest physiology and technology of fresh produce in Israel
  3. Management of Scientific laboratories in UK
  4. Advance instrumentation 
WORK EXPERIENCE
  • 1988- 1991: Kenyatta Unniversity Lab Technician in Botany department
  • 1991- 1996: JKUAT Lab Techician in Botany Department 
  • 1996- 2003: Egerton University Senior Technologist in Botany department
  • 2003- Date: Egerton University Principal Technologist/ Lecturer in CHS Dept.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  1. Crop protection
  2. Crop production and plant nutrition
  3. Ornamental plant research
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
  1. Peter Caleb Otieno*   Samuel Nyalala   Joseph Wolukau (2020). Postharvest Quality and Safety of Potted Greenhouse Tomato Grown on Forest Soil-Biosolids substrate, Blended with NPK Fertilizer. Journal of Agricultural Sciences 02(02): 24-36.
  2. Peter Caleb Otieno*, S. Nyalala and J. Wolukau (2020). Optimization of Biosolids as a Substrate for Tomato Transplant Production. Advances in Horticultural Sciences 34(3) 2020. 
  3. Peter Caleb Otieno*, Samuel Nyalala, and Joseph Wolukau, ., (2019). Suitability of biosolids from university sewage Ponds as a substrate for crop production. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 4(35): 2062-2074. 
  4. Peter C. Otieno*, Richard M.S. Mulwa, Joshua Otieno Ogweno (2020). Management of root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne sp.) and enhancing growth yield of greenhouse produced tomatoes by using fresh plant derived soil amendments. Adv. Hort. Sci., 2020 34(4): 357¬372 DOI: 10.13128/ahsc¬942 
CONFERENCES & INVITED PRESENTATIONS
  1. Horticultural Association of Kenya workshop
  2. Chuka Unuversity International scientific conference
  3. Rongo Univrsity International Scientific conference
  4. Egerton University International conference

 

TEACHING AREAS
  1. Ornamental Horticulture
  2. Organic crop production (Olericulture)
  3. Crop protection
OTHER SOCIETIES
  1. National Treasurer in the Society of Economic Botany No. 03 
  2. Member of Horticultural ASSOCIATION of KENYA No, 402
  3. Member of of Pesticidal plant Technologies Network (PEPTEN)

 

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