Achievements & Awards
Celebrating Excellence
Over the decades, CSIR-Crops Research Institute has been at the forefront of agricultural innovation. These awards reflect our collective dedication to transforming agriculture and improving lives.
New Discovery of 3 new distinct tomato virus strains
The first scientist to discover 3 new distinct tomato virus strains associated with Tomato Yellow Leaf curl Virus (TYLCV)
New Discovery of 3 new distinct tomato virus strains
Mr. Michael Kwabena Osei was born in 1978 at Mampong in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He is an Assistant Research Scientist of the CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana. He has published and presented paper on a wide range of vegetables including tomato, garden eggs and African Indigenous leafy vegetables. He has also attended a number of professional trainings in renowned Institutions such as the AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center and Wageningen, the Netherlands to enhance his research capabilities. Michael is the first Ghanaian scientist to have reported the discovery of 3 new distinct tomato virus strains associated with Tomato Yellow Leaf curl Virus (TYLCV) disease in Ghana during his MSc. work. This outstanding discovery has been published in the American Plant Disease Journal. As part of the FARA general Assembly, a science competition for young professional scientists in Africa was organized as side a meeting. 100 abstracts were received by the organizers and only 18 were selected after experts had revealed for presentations to win the top 5 awards. Mr. Michael Kwabena Osei was among the 18 young professional scientists who were invited to compete for the top 5 awards. He won the 5th prize with a cash amount of $1000 and CTA Publications on his work in Varietal Improvement of Africa eggplants: A Morphological Characterization in some African countries. Participating countries for the young professional in science competition included; Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroun, Burkina Faso, Mauritius, Malawi, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Madagascar, Congo, Benin and Tanzania.
National Best Scientist Award
Dr. Adu-Dapaah won the National Best Scientist Award – 2011
National Best Scientist Award
Dr. Hans Adu-Dapaah, and two other scientists of the Institute have won various awards at a ceremony organized as part of the first National Science Congress held at the Accra International Conference Centre from 2nd – 5th August, 2011. Dr. Adu-Dapaah won the National Best Scientist Award. The prize for the award included a certificate and citation, a brand new Toyota Corolla saloon car and GHC 20,000.00.The citation that accompanied the award cataloged the personal academic and professional achievements of Dr. Adu-Dapaah and his contribution towards agricultural research and development. The two other research scientists, Dr. Stephen Amoah and Mr. Michael K. Osei, were adjudged the first and second runners-up for the Young Scientists award. Dr. Stephen Amoah received GHc 7,500, a laptop and a citation as his prize while Mr. Michael K. Osei received GHc 5,000, a laptop and a citation. The entire staff of CSIR-Crops Research Institute wishes to congratulate the Director and the two scientists on their achievements.
Ghana Women of Excellence Award
Dr. Stella Ama Ennin was honoured with a 'Ghana Women of Excellence Award- 2012'
Ghana Women of Excellence Award
Dr. Stella Ama Ennin, Director of CSIR-Crops Research Institute was honoured with a ‘Ghana Women of Excellence Award- 2012’ at the 2nd Ghana Women of Excellence Awards ceremony in Accra on 30th March, 2012. The awards ceremony organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs was under the theme “Empowering the Ghanaian Woman for National Development”. For her price, Dr. Ennin received a certificate and a citation, in recognition of her “outstanding contribution to Scientific Research and Agricultural Development in Ghana”. The citation for the award, in part, read as follows: “Dr Ennin has contributed to the development of 14 crop production technologies as either a team leader or as a team member. She has organized several research-farmer-extension linkages activities and fora, as well as radio, television and print media interventions and publications for the dissemination of these technologies to farmers. Dr. Ennin has trained a number of extension officers and farmers on new agricultural technologies which has resulted in 10% to 50% yield increases and led to the removal of drudgery in crop production. These new technologies include choice of variety, optimum plant population, right time of planting, chemical and organic fertilizer application to normal and quality protein maize, optimum cowpea and soybean plant population density in crop rotations and intercrops with maize and cassava. Others include mechanized ridging for planting and minimum staking to reduce drudgery and deforestation associated with yam production and climate change in the coastal, forest and forest-savannah transitional zone of Ghana. She has refereed 15 papers for local and International Scientific journals. She also has 89 publications to her credit and supervised a Master’s Degree student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science Technology”.