Mr. Alex Tamu holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Agronomy (Plant Breeding) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and a bachelor’s degree with honors in Crop Science at Njala University, Sierra Leone. He is currently pursuing his PhD at Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan. His PhD research focused on the physiological-morphological analysis of the response of Koshihikari (O. sativa L.) submergence-resistant gene transfer strains to flooding and high temperatures. Mr. Tamu is a plant breeder attached to the Rokupr Agricultural Research Center (RARC), Rokupr, Kambia District, Sierra Leone. He has served the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI) for a decade now. Mr. Tamu’s research interest focuses on the development, improvement, and advancement of high-yielding lowland rice varieties with superior quality. He collaborated in the implementation of the Sierra Leone Agribusiness and Rice Value Chain Project (SLARis) and AfricaRice for the implementation of a number of activities related to rice breeding and genetic innovation initiatives. He has also collaborated with Vedico, a Vietnamese seed company in Sierra Leone, to develop high-yielding lowland rice varieties that have grain quality attributes