Ojo Michael Akindele is a Nigerian. He had National Diploma in General Agriculture in 1992. In 1999, he graduated from Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria with Second Class Honour (Upper Division) in Agricultural Economics and Extension. He also obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D Agricultural Economics. He joined the service of Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria in 2007 as Lecturer II in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension Technology. He grew through the ranks and became Professor of Agricultural Economics in 2019.
He has over 15 years of teaching and research experience in the area of Agricultural Production Economics with special interest in establishing and improving the efficiency and productivity of farmers with the aim of enhancing food production and security. Moreover, he has conducted researches ranging from small, medium and large-scale farm production with the aim of identifying the factors and constraints that affect the food crop and poultry farmers production, productivity and efficiency in order to proffer solutions to them thereby increasing food security status of the people. He has supervised and still supervising undergraduate, Master and PhD students. He has over 80 publications covering his areas of research interest. He has also taught Introductory Economics, Introduction to Agricultural Economics, Agricultural marketing, Econometrics and Application of computer to agriculture at undergraduate level, Mathematical Economics and Advanced Statistics and Research Methodology at Postgraduate level. He has also been involved in research consultancy in various Federal Government and World Bank Assisted Projects