BUAN

Professor E Vallentino Emongor

Professor

Faculty of Agriculture
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences (CSS)

P/Bag 0027, Gaborone Botswana
3650100
vemongor@buan.ac.bw

He is a trained and qualified agricultural scientist (horticulture and agronomy) with 38 years of experience in agricultural extension, research, and university teaching and supervision of undergraduate and graduate students, plus coordination of graduate studies.He has been the Crop Science and Production Department Graduate Coordinator and Member of the Board of School of Graduate Studies (SGS), University of Botswana (UB) from 2009 to 2016.He has supervised and graduated five (5) PhD and 27 MSc students; externally examined four MSc theses; written three books, four book chapters, 79 papers in peer reviewed journals, 30 papers in edited proceedings, 16 Conference papers, and six teaching manuals. He was a team leader in several multidisciplinary research projects and consultancies. Member of the editorial board of The Botswana Journal of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Kenya Journal of Horticultural Science and East African Agriculture and Forestry Journal. Editor/Reviewer HortScience, Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, African Journal of Agricultural Research, Journal of Plant Growth Regulators, Botswana Journal of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Uniswa Research Journal of Agriculture Science and Technology, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Uniswa Journal of Agriculture, Acta Horticulturae (International Society for Horticultural Science-ISHS), Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, Discovery and Innovation Journal, African Crop Science Journal, Tanzania Journal of Agricultural Sciences, American Journal of Experimental Agriculture, Agricultural Science Research Journal, etc.

Pomology,
Postharvest Harvest Physiology and Technology,
Plant Propagation,
Floriculture

1. RUFORUM Grant on Safflower Germplasm Evaluation for Botswana Conditions, US$ 60,000 (to train 2 MSc Students).

2. EU-BCA Bambara Groundnut Research Project (BAMLINK)- Research on Ecophysiological Interactions. European Union (EU) Funded Project (euros 98,074).

3. Use of sewage effluent for irrigation on horticultural crops and its effects on elemental composition of the produce and soil chemical properties. Botswana College of Agriculture, Research and Publications Committee (RPC) Funded Project (Pula 523,446.90).

4. Development and Rapid Multiplication of Cassava Germplasm Free from Cassava Mosaic Virus in Western, Coast and Rift Valley Provinces of Kenya. Funded by Rockefeller Foundation (US $ 80,000).

5. Agriculture Research Fund- Funded by World Bank- Joint Cassava Project with KARI (Kenya) on cassava improvement in Western Province and North Rift. Funded by World Bank (US $ 200,000).

6. Effect of benzyladenine on apple Fruit set and Postharvest Quality. International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada), Funded Project (Canadian $ 180, 000). This Project led to my PhD Scholarship.

7. Chamomile Germplasm Evaluation Project in Kenya. Joint Project Between Chemistry and Crop Science Departments of the University of Nairobi. Funded by World Bank (US $ 333,330).

RUFORUM Grant on Enhancing Safflower Production and Product Development for Food Security and Improving Incomes of Small-Scale Farmers in Botswana, US$ 300,000 (to train 4 MSc, two PhD and 10 TVET students), four-year project.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Mosupiemang, M., Emongor, V. E., and Malambane, G. (2025). The response of safflower genotypes to drought stress induced at the rosette stage. Journal of Aridland Agriculture, 11:69-76. Doi:10.25081/jaa.2025.v11.9121. https://updatepublishing.com/journal/index.php/jaa.

2. Emongor, V. E., Setshogela, B. P., and Tiroesele, B. (2025). Safflower genotypes and time of picking flores influenced mineral and proximate variables. Journal of Medicinal Plants Studies, 13(2):174-181. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.22271/plants.2025.v13.i2b.1820.

3. Kereilwe, D., Malambane, G., Emongor, V. E, and Batlang, U. (2025). Cold stress-induced biochemical and molecular responses in safflower (Carthamus tinctorious L.). Plant Science Today. https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.4032.

4. Emongor, V. E., Setshogela, B. P., and Tiroesele, B. (2024). Influence of genotype and time of harvest on flores yield, carthamin and carthamidin contents, and dye index of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.). Journal of Medicinal Plants Studies, 12(6):111-122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/plants.2024.v12.i6b.1774.

5. Emongor, V. E., Tiroesele, B. and Moatshe, O. M. (2023). Enhancing safflower Production and Product Development for Food Security and Improving Incomes of Small-scale Farmers in Botswana. In Egeru, A., Lindow, M. & Leresche, K. M. (Eds.), University Engagement with Farming Communities in Africa, Community Action Research Platforms, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 987-1-032-48118-0. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003387497.

6. Emongor, V. E. and Emongor, R. E. (2023). Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.), pp. 683-731. In:Farooq, M and Siddique, H. M.K. (Editors), Negelected and Underutilized Crops: Smart Future Food, Academic Press, An Imprint of Elsevier, London, United Kingdom. https://www.elsevier.com/books/neglected-and-underutilized-crops/farooq/978-0-323-90537-4. ISBN: 978-0-323-90537-4.

7. Emongor R. A, Maina F.W., Nyongesa, D., Ngoru, B. and Emongor V. E. (2021). Food and nutrition security and wildlife conservation: Case studies from Kenya, pp. 201-235. In: Food Security and Nutrion, Edited by Charis G. Galanakis. Elselvier, Academic Press Publishers, 295p. ISBN 978-0-12-820521-1.

8. Mosupiemang, M., Emongor, V. E., Malambane, G., and Mapitse, R. (2023). Growth, development, and yield of safflower genotypes in response to environmental variations. Journal of Phytology, 15: 145-154. https//updatepublishing.com/journal/index.php/jp. Doi:10.25081/jp.2023.v15.8255.

9. Kereilwe, D., Emongor, V. E., and Malambane, G. (2023). Temperature and Duration of Exposure on Chilling Injury of Safflower. European Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences. DOI: 10.24018/ejfood.2023.5.2.660. www.ejfood.org.

10. Mosupiemang, M., Malambane, G., Mathapa, B. G., and Emongor, V. E. (2022). Olesin expression patterns and size of oil bodies as a factor in determining oil content in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) genotypes. European Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences, 4(5): 54-60. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejfood.2022.4.5.570.