Raymond Massaquoi is Research officer, specialized in Soil and Water Engineering. He joined the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI) in 2020 and has been conducting research in several areas in Soil and Water Engineering mainly, Irrigation and drainage, climate change and agriculture, soil fertility management, soil conservation, Agroforestry, groundwater management and crop improvement. He has MSc. and Bachelor’s degree in Soil and Water Engineering from Njala University.
He has also got two International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) fellowships in Seibersdorf, IAEA laboratories, Austria, on water management and crop production. Also he is an Africa Union scholar on a specialized Training on Cost and Water Efficient Irrigation and Agriculture Water Management Solution for Agricultural Transformation in Africa. Recently, he got accepted into the Cairo Center for Learning and Excellent (CCLEAR) program for Sustainable Management of Groundwater Resources for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa.
He is part of the team that won the FSRP grant for adaptive research and also the UNDP small grant for farmers in degraded soils of Sierra Leone. He has contributed and still contributing to research projects in the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI)
His research interest include soil erosion, crop water requirement in degraded lands, nutrient leaching, ground water potential for irrigation, climate change and agriculture, water quality, soil fertility management, soil conservation, and crop improvement.