Mrs. Bintu Ndusha

Mrs. Bintu Ndusha (Democratic Republic of Congo) - PhD Fellow, Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT), Faculty of Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary sciences, University of Nairobi (UoN). Bintu is a Congolese citizen, born on 27th July 1986. Bintu has six years of experience working as an Assistant lecturer at the Université Evangélique en Afrique. She is currently in her second year of PhD at UoN in Sustainable Soil Resource Management (2015-2018).  Her research study is on “Maximizing Soybean BNF and production in South Kivu (Eastern D.R.Congo). Her work is supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York under GTA (graduate Teaching Assistantship) program of RUFORUM. She has defended her proposal and currently she is doing field and lab works. She has been working together with her institution and IITA (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture) for collection, characterization and testing of indigenous rhizobia strains to identify local strains that are suitable for inoculants production for farmers in her region.