ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS IN MOI UNIVERSITY

Prof. Bob Wishitem
DVC, RESEARCH & EXTENSION

Our motivation in research is to give practical solutions to the problems bedeviling the community. Most of our research is community oriented.Below are some of the researches that are being conducted by Moi University staff.

  1. Maize project
  2. AMPATH
  3. AFORNET
  4. Distribution and cycling of heavy metal and chlorated pesticides in selected wetlands of Lake Victoria catchment.
  5. The status of Africana (O) in Kakamega forest and the prospects of its vegetative propagation.
  6. Language policy and educational linguistic human rights in Kenya.
  7. Vulnerability of household assets and instituional dynamics in management of wetlands in Lake victoria Basin.
  8. Appraisal of Horticultural Export crops performance and marketing channels in North Rift region of Kenya.
  9. French variety development/Snap bean improvement.
  10. Research programmes in Sorghum.
  11. A study to better understanding of the'MBILI' and conventional intercropping systems in relations 'root characteristics, nutrients, uptake and field of intercrops in Western Kenya.
  12. Bean Quality improvement.
  13. On farm seed production.
  14. A comparison of soil fertility management practices in Western Kenya.
  15. Bean germplasm evaluation chick pea improvement.
  16. Seed quality of indigenous vegetables.
  17. Solubility of Minjigu rock phosphate.
  18. Stem borer control and soil fertility improvement.
  19. Developing decentralized rice seed and fish fingerling strategies in farmers' rice fields in the Lake Victoria Basin.
  20. Lake Victoria river flood plains: Challenges, opportunities and viable interventions of poverty alleviation at household level.
  21. Impact of consumptive utilization of wetland resources on ecological integrity and livelihood in selected areas of Lake Victoria basin.
  22. Investigation of the domestication of safe Medicine Species: An alternative approach.
  23. Green house gasses, methane and carbon dioxide and the diminishing water resources in the Lake Victoria basin in Kenya.
  24. Seed Viability Testing.
  25. Matching research to farmers needs in horticulture in the North Rift.
  26. Evaluation of PRE-PAC in Western Kenya.
  27. Living effects of minjigu rock phospahte

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Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Extension),
Moi University,
P.O. Box 3900
Eldoret.
Tel: +254 (0)53 43355
Fax: 254 53 43412
E-Mail: dvcre@mu.ac.ke

 

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