Joseph Xorse Kugbe (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Soil Science. He has been with UDS since 2013. Dr. Kugbe has taught in courses such as Introductory Soil Science; Soil Physics and Chemistry; Irrigation, Drainage and Flood Control; Soil Chemistry; Soil Fertility and Plant nutrition. Dr Kugbe has extensive research experiences in soil mineralogy and synthesis of soil minerals including zeolites, allophanes and imogolites; environmental pollution remediation; soil chemistry and crop nutrition; carbon sequestration and climate change; and remote sensing across Ghana, Japan, Morocco, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Germany. His current research foci include assessment of productivity of micronutrient inclusion in cereal (maize, rice), vegetable (tomato, pepper, onion) and legume (soybean, groundnut, cowpea) cropping systems, sorption and desorption dynamics of P in acidic soils, soil pH amendments, rock phosphate and phosphogypsum productivity in cropping systems, wet and dry atmospheric nutrient deposition, bush fires and plant nutrient export, crop nutrient dynamics and nutrient balance, soil carbon, climate change mitigation and adaptation. Dr Kugbe has been in international collaborative research and outreach with JICA, AGRA, MADE Ghana, Catholic Relieve Services, OCP Africa, DAAD, GTZ, IITA, etc.

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph-Kugbe