Peter Ampim, Ph.D.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 30, 2025) – Prairie View A&M University Associate Professor Dr. Peter Ampim has received more than $66,000 in funding from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service through the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The award supports his ongoing work to train the next generation of agricultural scientists while promoting innovative approaches to sustainable farming.
Dr. Ampim, who teaches in the Department of Agriculture within the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, focuses his research on climate-smart and sustainable crop production. His expertise includes organic farming methods, specialty and bioenergy crops, and controlled environment agriculture—an area of growing importance in the face of climate and environmental challenges.
The USDA-funded project will offer undergraduate students meaningful research experiences in the field. Beginning in the project’s second year, Dr. Ampim will recruit and mentor two undergraduate research scholars annually over three years. These students will participate in field-based research at the Texas A&M research farm, contributing to organic sorghum production experiments.
Through these experiments, students will collect and analyze data on soil and plant health to explore the impact of cover cropping on soil organic carbon, crop yield, and overall soil quality. Their hands-on work will support broader efforts in regenerative agriculture and will be shared at national scientific conferences, including the annual ASA-SSSA-CSSA meeting. In addition to contributing valuable data to the field, these experiences will prepare participants for advanced studies or careers in agricultural science.
The award builds on Dr. Ampim’s broader mission to develop resilient, scalable, and environmentally responsible farming solutions tailored to Texas’ diverse landscapes.
This story originally appeared at pvamu.edu/research.
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