Metha Wanapat
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Metha Wanapat is currently the Professor and the Director of the Tropical Feed Resources Research and Development Center TROFREC, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen Province, Thailand. Professor Wanapat has been devoted himself in research, education and innovation generation concerning feed development for ruminants and has been awarded the highest Professorship, the PC 11 in the field of animal nutrition particularly in ruminant nutrition and metabolism,the first one of its kind ever awarded in Thailand.
Research and Development. He is the pioneer in ruminants(beef cattle, dairy cattle, swamp buffalo) metabolism, nutrition and feeding systems in Thailand particularly on the uses of local feed resoureces and feeding systems based on agricultural crop-residues, by-products and other alternative feed resources especially for the rural poor farmers and their well-beings.He has published more than 150 papers of his research work in the international journals, 6 texbooks and has been serving as a consultant and scientific advisor in many international organizations and internationally supported projects located around the world IFS[1],EU[2], FAO[3],UNDP[4], ICARDA, SIDA-SAREC, ILRI[5] etc.)
Scientific Achievement and Recognition . He has been awarded for his scientific achievement and merits with both national and international outstanding awards eg. the Outstanding Animal Husbandry Researcher Award by the Animal Husbandry Association of ThailandAHAT, the Outstanding Purina Researcher Award by the Asian-Australasian Animal ProductionAAAP Societies, the Outstanding Agricultural Scientist by the Thailand Agricultural Science Society under the Royal Patronage, the International Expert by Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture,P.R.China etc.He also serves as an editorial board member for the AJAS,the Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences. Moreover, he has been serving since 1985 as the Advisor for the International Association of Students in Agricultural and Related Siences-ThailandIAAS-Thailand, to promote and facilitate the Exchange Program for the students around the world :
Regarding his family, he has been married to Associate Professor Sadudee Wanapat, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University,Thailand and has one son, Mr.Chach(Data) Wanapat,who has been studying for M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
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