HOD's Profile

https://rnrs.ui.edu.ng/so-olajuyigbe-0

HOD’s WELCOME SPEECH

I welcome you to the Department of Forest Production and Products, which is strategically positioned in the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources to promote sustainable production and utilisation of forest resources, as environmentally friendly substitutes to non-renewable natural resources. The Department adopts an accommodating approach to ensuring integrity in teaching and impartation of knowledge to students and staff through effective teaching, seminars and relevant field experience; geared towards producing forestry professionals who are able to engage the changing world in activities geared towards sustainable forest production and utilisation. 

The Department has evolved from the sustained yield concept of forest management to a broader scope that focuses on sustainable management of the entirety of ecosystem services, and to this end, the Department has developed an underlying philosophy that prepares world-class graduates for the challenges that face the environment and human dependence on it. This is to bridge the gap for trained capacity in the field of forest production and its utilisation while creating pragmatic and sustained solutions to the problems encountered in food, fuel and fibre production; deforestation and forest degradation; loss of tree genetic diversity, forest and climate change, as well as poor data management and conservation.

The Department of Forest Production and Products operates in an atmosphere that encourages the free flow of knowledge among students and members of staff. The practice had, in turn, created excellent relationships with professional colleagues outside the department as a result of a long-term forestry fraternity established over the years. 

You are welcome.

Professor S.O. Olajuyigbe