Agricultural engineer, soil fertility and soil management

Luc Ger ard Onana Onana

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EDUCATION

Sept 2011- Sept 2013 : MSc in Physical Land Resources (major: soil

science), Ghent university Belgium. Master thesis: the influence of

charring organic materials into soil microorganisms under tropical

agroforest.

November 2000-October 2006: Agricultural Engineer diploma (major: crop

production), University of Dschang, Cameroon. Thesis : fertilization

practices and soil characteristics on vegetable production in peri-urban

area.

June 1999: Senior secondary school certificate

OTHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING :

Sept 2012: Biochar certificate, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural

Engineering,

postdam, Germany

Nov 2009: certificate in capitalization of sustainable agricultural

experiences, IED Afrique

March 2009: certificate on Horticulture and training of trainees, Yaound

March 2007: certificate on writing for publication and grant proposals,

university of Johannesburg, South Africa

GRANTS SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

VLIR-UOS Scholarships, Belgian Federal government 2011-2013 for MSc in

Physical Land Resource, option soil science

2007: UNEDRA fellowship (the African University Network for Disaster Risk

Assessment) for a 5-day training course on scientific writing)

2006: Diploma of excellence from the University Catholic Parish of Dschang

WORK EXPERIENCE

Teaching activity:

March -May 2014: Lecturer at the school of Wood Water and Natural

Resources, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Sciences, University of

Dschang, course: Carbonization.

Responsibilities and achievements

. Elaboration of the lecture note for students enrolled for course of

carbonization within the professional master on energetic

valorization of biomass

. 45 hours of class lecture (12 students) in addition to 15 hours of

tutorials

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

04/2011 -09/2011: Institute of Agricultural Research for Development

(IRAD) : P.O Box 2123 Yaound tel +237******** website:

www.iradcameroun.org

. Setting and follow up biochar incubation experiment on cocoa

agroforest

. Collect soil sample with biochar for soil physico-chemical and

microbiological analysis

12/2010-01/2011 : Junior consultant : Reducing Emissions from

Deforestation and Degradation through Alternative Land uses in

Rainforests. REED-ALERT

. Administration of interview to a sample of 120 household, input data

on SPSS and Processing data

08/2010-01/2011 junior research consultant at IRAD

. Conduct literature review, sample soil for pot experiment and trap

culture

. Set up, follow up and collect data from a pot experiment aiming to

evaluate the effect of five mycorrhizal biofertilizers on the growth

of seedlings of Prunus Africana

2009-2010: research assistant at IRAD/ (Development of N and P fertilizer

management practices for Sustainable Intensification of Agricultural

Production in Cameroon)

. Setting, follow up and collect biomass growth from field experiment

aiming to evaluate the nitrogen fixation of two groundnut varieties

2008-2009 research assistant: IRAD/Reinforcement of partnership in

Agronomic research in Cameroon.

. Conduct literature review on vegetable production, Set up on farm

experiment on celery, collect data and poster presentation

2007: Consultant at IRAD:

. Literature review on seed law, analysis of major constraints for

production of vegetable

. Administration of interview, processing data and written report

2005 (6 month internship)/IRAD.

. survey on practices of fertilization on leafy vegetable

. samples soil, analysis and interpretation of results in a view of good

fertilization on vegetables.

. put in place a comparative trial of two types of chicken manure

application on the yield of lettuce.

SKILLS SUMMARY

. Excellent verbal, written and instructional communication skills

. Leadership qualities and good team spirit

. High organisational ability

. Logical thinking and positive approach

. Profound ability to work in a stressful environment

Language skills: French: Native speaker; English: fluent, daily language;

German: some general knowledge from secondary school.

Computer skills

. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, notepad, End note software for writing.

Statistical skills

. SPSS, Splus, Statistica, software for descriptive and inference

statistics. SGeMS, suffer software for spatial analysis, including

variogram modeling.

Other skills

. crop production, pest and diseases management.

. implementation, follow up analysis and interpretation of agronomic

trials

. sampling soil, analysis, interpretation, fertilization, fertility

management

. biochar production and application to soil

. mycorrhizae biofertilizers

SYMPOSIUM / POSTER PRESENTED / PUBLISHED ARTICLE

Luc Gerard O.O Practices of fertilization on vegetable production: case of

Nkolondom proceedings at the international symposium "International

Agriculture in a Changing World" Bern University of Applied Sciences, 19

june 2014, Switzeland.

N.A. Onguene., C.S.O. Onana & L.G.O. Onana., 2012. Starter N and P

Fertilizers Have Dissimilar Effects on Native Mycorrhizal and

Bradyrhizobial Symbiosis of Four Promiscuous Soybean Varieties in Acid

Soils of Cameroon TROPICULTURA 30, 3, 125-132

Luc Gerard O.O 2010. Fertilisation par le fumier de poule, l'experience de

Nkolondom sustainable livestock. French review on sustainable agriculture

with low external imput (AGRIDAPE) 26, 1, 28-29.

Poster

L.G.O. Onana & Edith Hammer 2012. Effect of charred and uncharred material

on bacteria growth in an agroforest of South Cameroon; presented on 1st

International summer school on biochar, Postdam Germany, 9-16 september

2012

L. G. O. Onana & Agoume Victor 2007. Participative research on the

management of soil fertility on vegetable in periurban area of Yaound

proceedings in scientific review of IRAD July 2007

MEMBERSHIPS:

International Biochar Initiative since 2012.

PROMOTING LOCAL INNOVATION (PROLINOVA) since 2010

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

2000-2004: student representative at the Faculty of Agronomy and

Agricultural Science.

03/2004 - 07/2004: Parish Catholic University Farm, in charge of production

of maize-beans association with potatoes on 1ha

INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES:

. football, volley-ball, reading, table tennis

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