Muhammad Akil
Indonesian Cereals Research Institute, Indonesia.
Biography
Akil is working as a senior Researcher in the Division of Ecology and Physiology, Indonesian Cereals Research Institute (ICERI), Maros, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. He is soil and agronomist scientist. He obtained Ph.D (Crop Science – Agronomy) from Central Luzon State University (CLSU), Munoz, Nueva Ecija, Philippines on November 1999. He worked as researcher in the Maros Research Institute for Food Crops (MORIF), now Indonesian Cereals Research Institute (ICERI). He attended several trainings, seminars/workshops and conferences in Indonesia and abroad. Among these were the Maize Production Training in Mexico in August 1988 to January 1989, and Water Management Research in Sukamandi, West Java, Indonesia. During his study in the Philippines, he also participated in a number of conference-workshops. These workshops as follow: Use of Organic Fertilizer for Irrigated Lowland Rice; Workshop on Developing and Strengthening the Technology Adaptation Project; 11th National Rice R&D Review and Planning Workshop; and Strengthening Genetic Education in the Philippines for the Next Millennium at PhilRice, Philippines. He also attended in the 14th and 15th conference of the Crop Science Society of the Philippines Conference in Cebu and General Santos City in April 1988 and May 1999, respectively. In June 2017, he attended and participated as oral presenter in the International Forum-Agriculture, Biology, and Life Science Conference in Kyoto, Tokyo. In July 2017 he also attended as poster presentation in the 5th Asian PGPR International Conference for Sustainable Agriculture, Bogor, Indonesia.