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Dr. Charles Afriyie-Debrah is a Senior Research Scientist at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI), Kumasi, Ghana. Charles is an Agronomist, Biosafety into Plant Biotechnologist, Environmentalist who has been involved in improving growth and yield in the cereals division (maize and Rice) at CSIR-CRI. He is the first Biosafety Officer overseeing the confined field trial (CFT) of the first genetically and modified organism crop (NEWEST rice project) in Ghana. His research interest includes studies on the positive responses of foliar fertilizer application (micronutrient) to rice varieties, soil fertility and drought studies. He has also done studies on awareness, adoption, agronomic and molecular characterization of maize varieties and other environmental studies on food, soil and water quality (heavy metals) on our market’s places and in the mining areas in Ghana.

Dr. Afriyie-Debrah obtained a BSc (Chemistry) degree, M.Sc. (Environmental Science) and Ph.D. (Agronomy) all from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He also had MPhil (Biosafety into Plant Biotechnology) from Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy

Dr. Afriyie-Debrah has travelled and has attended several conferences, workshops and training programmes in many countries around the world. He has authored, coauthored and reviewed over twenty (20) scientific publications, comprising refereed journal papers and conference papers including publications in highly-rated international journals. Additionally, He has trained interns, students and supervised graduate students from the Universities. He is currently the Vice president of the CSIR-CRI branch of the Research Staff Association of Ghana.

He is a dedicated Christian and married with three kids.