Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Sciences
Department Of Horticulture Explore our departments and programmes
Dr. Dawuda Mohammed Mujitaba
DR. DAWUDA MOHAMMED MUJITABA HEAD OF DEPARTMENT - DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE
Introduction

The teaching and research foci of Department of Horticulture are listed below.

  1. Landscape Science and Ecology
  2. Postharvest Physiology and Technology
  3. Shea Parkland Management and Conservation
  4. Indigenous Fruits and Vegetable Production
  5. Organic Plant Production and Soilless Culture
  6. Non-Timber Forest Products: Honey, Mushroom and Snail Products
  7. Effects of Climate Change on Potential Distribution of Indigenous Vegetables, Fruit, Medicinal, Agroforestry, and Landscape Trees in The Wild
  8. Gravely Soils and Their Impact on Soil- Water-Plant Relationships 
  9. Plant Nutrient Selectivity in Soils

Programmes 

  1. BSc. Agriculture Technology (Horticulture Option)
  2. MSc/MPhil Horticulture
  3. PhD Horticulture
Teaching and Research Staff
# Staff Name Designation
1 Prof. George Nyarko Professor
2 Prof. Abdul-Halim Abubakari Associate Professor
3 Prof. Moomin Abu Associate Professor
4 Dr. Shu-Aib Jakpa Sumaila Senior Lecturer
5 Dr. Joshua A. Yindana Senior Lecturer
6 Dr. Hypolite Bayor Senior Lecturer
7 Dr. Dawuda Mohammed Mujitaba Senior Lecturer
8 Dr. Amadu Yakubu Senior Lecturer
9 Mr. Francis Azumah Chimsah Lecturer
10 Ms. Mildred Osei-Kwarteng Lecturer
11 Mr. Imoro Yahaya Lecturer
12 Mr. Abdul-Rahman Karim Lecturer
13 Ms. Ayishetu Adam Lecturer
Undergraduate Programmes
# Programme Degree Awarded
1 BSc Agriculture Technology (Horticulture)
Post Programmes
# Programme Degree Awarded
1 MPhil Horticulture
2 MSc Horticulture
3 PhD Horticulture
Who We Are

The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Sciences (FOAFCS), located at the Nyankpala Campus, is the premier faculty of the University for Development Studies (UDS), having begun in 1993 as the Faculty of Agriculture.

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Email: foafcs@uds.edu.gh Telephone: +233-54-232-1088 Postal address: P. O. Box TL1350 Digital address: NT-0272-1946 Tamale, Ghana
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