Antony M. Kibe is an Associate Professor of Agronomy, in the Crops, Horticulture and Soils Department of Egerton University (CHS), Egerton University, Kenya and formers Senate Representative (Associate Dean) of the Faculty of Agriculture from Nov 2010 to 2014. He is currently responsible for training in Dry land Farming, Cropping Systems, Annual Crops and Agro-Biodiversity at both undergraduate and post graduate levels. His research interests are in development of crop production functions (i.e., crop models) for evaluating water and nutrient use efficiencies by field crops. Prof. Kibe specialized in nutrient and water management for irrigated wheat in his PhD studies from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (PUSA), New Delhi, India, and agronomy of forage oats at MSc level, and BSc Agriculture from the Sam Hagginbottom Institute of agriculture, Technology and Science, Allahabad, U.P. India. Prof. Kibe started his academic career in April 1992 as an Assistant Lecturer in the Agronomy Department of Egerton University, Kenya, and rose to Associate Professor in April 2013. He has been a principle investigator and team member of locally and internationally funded collaborative projects, and been an exchange scholar at the Louisiana State University, USA in Oct 2016. More recently – in July 2017 – he was appointed as the Deputy Director of Egerton University Welfare Services. Prof Kibe has also served as a Director of Egerton University Savings and Credit Cooperative from April 2013 to March 2017, been a Council member of the Kenya Horticultural Society between 2014 -2017, and is a life member of the Indian Society of Agronomists. Prof. Kibe is also the patron of a student group at Egerton University, where he passionately mentors them to become responsible and proactive persons.
The CaWSA- Centre showcases various water conservation, storage, abstraction and distribution systems and soil and moisture conservation technologies, innovations and management practices (TIMPS).
Prof. Anthony M. Kibe,
CaWSA – Centre Coordinator
Crops, Horticulture and Soils Department, Egerton
University, Njoro, Kenya.
Email: akibe@egerton.ac.ke,
+254721402957