YPARD GHANA representative Mr. Michael Kwabena Osei is a product of T.I. Ahamadiyya Senior Secondary High School, Kumasi. He is a Research Scientist of the CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana. He holds a BSc. (Agriculture) and MSc. (Plant Breeding) from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (KNUST) respectively. He also holds a Diploma in Vegetable breeding and Certificate in Plant Variety Protection/Plant Breeders’ Right from the AVRDC- World Vegetable Center, Arusha-Tanzania and Wageningen, The Netherlands respectively.

Engineer with a Masters in ICT in Spain, I am a researcher ICT applied to the processes of extension and rural development