By Ayo Arowojolu
A renowned Professor of Agricultural Financing and Policy Issues, Prof Dorcas Adegbite is set to deliver the 105th Inaugural Lecture of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta(FUNAAB) billed to hold on Wednesday October 15, 2025.
The lecture holds at the Prof. Oluwafemi Balogun Ceremonial Building at 2pm on campus.
Titled, “Financing the Cooperatives: Repayment Culture for Sustainable Agricultural Development,” the event is to be chaired by the University’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olusola Babatunde Kehinde.
Prof. Dorcas Adetokunbo Adegbite, is a distinguished scholar from the Programme Planning Monitoring and Evaluation/ICT Unit, Agricultural Media Resources and Extension Centre (AMREC).
Expected at the event are members of the University Community, stakeholders in the agricultural sector, and the general public at large.
Expectedly, the lecture promises to address critical issues in cooperative financing and sustainable agriculture in Nigeria.
With an impressive academic pedigree over the past four decades, Prof Adegbite had her PhD, MSc. And BSc in Agricultural Economics, all from the University of Ibadan in the year 2002, 1989 and 1984 respectively.
She also had Professional Diplomas in Cooperative Studies from Cooperative College, Ijeja (Affiliate of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye) and in Education from Federal College of Education, Osiele, Abeokuta in 2014 and 2019 respectively.
Prof. Adegbite had an excellent background in Cooperatives and Finance and a strong passion for transforming agricultural systems for food security and improved livelihood of rural households.
The erudite Professor commenced her academic career as an Extension Fellow II at the Agricultural Media Resources and Extension Centre and anchored in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, FUNAAB, in 1995 and rose through the ranks to become a Professor of Agricultural Finance & Policy Issues in 2015.
Prof Adegbite has served in various capacities at the University being the immediate past Director of Agricultural Media Resources and Extension Centre(AMREC).
She teaches Agricultural Finance, Production Economics and Agricultural Cooperatives courses at the University’s Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels with extension activities in rural livelihood and welfare improvement to eradicate hunger, malnutrition, food insecurity and poverty.
Prof. Adegbite has successfully supervised over 60 undergraduate, seven M.Agric and three PhD students. She has 50 publications in national and international journals and seven conference proceedings. She has also presented eighteen technical reports.
She is happily married and blessed with wonderful children.
