Background

Mildred Osei-Kwarteng is a lecturer with over 11 years of experience in teaching, research, and extension at the Department of Horticulture, University for Development Studies. With a general background in Horticulture, her specific area of research is in olericulture, and she places much emphasis on African indigenous vegetables and other major vegetable crops. Her focus is on the physiology of vegetables in response to abiotic and biotic factors, vegetable systems modeling, postharvest technology, and sustainable vegetable production. Some of the courses she has instructed include vegetable crop production, advances in vegetable crop production and marketing, principles of horticulture, mushroom and snail culture, and introduction to genetics. Ms. Osei-Kwarteng has also collaborated on international and local projects, including the Scientific Cooperation Research Program between the University of Kentucky, University of Ghana, and University for Development Studies and the Hortifresh project on indigenous vegetables of Ghana. Her international training experiences include: the postharvest training of trainer’s program by the Postharvest Education Foundation (PEF), the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development advanced science training, modeling plant growth and physiological processes at organ level (functional, structural modeling), modeling the postharvest quality of high-value crops and value Chain Research on neglected and underutilized species of plants and the Norman Borlaug sustainable vegetable production training at the University of Kentucky, USA. Ms. Osei-Kwarteng has also served on the student counseling team of the University in counseling and teaching leadership skills. Moreover, she also served as the seminar and the TTFPP coordinator at the departmental level.

Email address: osei.kwarteng@uds.edu.gh