Maxwell Lamptey

Name: Maxwell Lamptey

Qualification: MPhil Plant Breeding and Biotechnology

Current grade: Principal Technologist

Area of specialization: Breeding

Research experience: Creating variability in groundnuts, cowpea and common beans through hybridization

Tel: 0505190088/0243978365

Email: info2mlamp@gmail.com

Nationality: Ghanaian

Station: Fumesua

Brief Bio

Mr. Maxwell Lamptey was a national service person at the CSIR-Crops Research Institute between 2009 and 2010. He was then employed as a technical staff in 2012. Since he joined the Legumes/Oil Seeds division of the Institute, he has been conducting both on-station and out-station research trials.

Maxwell was part of the research team that successfully worked to develop groundnut and cowpea varieties such as CRI-Pion, CRI-Abakan, CRI-Agbeyeye, CRI-Hans Adua, CRI-Agyenkwa, CRI-Nketewade and CRI-Zamzam.