A. K. M. Abdullah Al-Amin

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• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Bangladesh Agricultural University

Worldwide 500 million smallholder farms are available that are mostly concentrated in Asia and Africa, which support about two billion livelihoods. The smallholder farms have been going through on-farm productivity constraints related to labour scarcity, increasing wage rate, and field size and shape. The farm management challenges are becoming cri...

Bangladesh arable cereal farming has been quite successful in primary tillage mechanization with two-wheel tractor operated machines (2WM) with human drivers, but rising farm wage rates and labour scarcity push farmers toward further mechanisation. Farm mechanization is evolving towards whole farm mechanized operations because the government has en...

This research endeavours to guide precision conservation considering the inclusions of prairie strips in strip cropping systems, where the farm was managed by autonomous machines (swarm robots). The economics of conventional and autonomous mechanization alternatives was examined.

Farmers, agroecological innovators and research have suggested mixed cropping as a way to promote soil health. Mixing areas of different crops in the same field is another form of precision agriculture's spatial and temporal management. The simplest form of mixed cropping is strip cropping. In conventional mechanized farming use of mixed cropping p...

Research suggests autonomous machines in open field arable farming can enhance biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services restoration. It is hypothesized that autonomous equipment could be a profitable alternative to conventional machines with human operators irrespective of field size and shape or cropping systems. However, lack of agronomic...

Autonomous machines have the potential to maintain food production and agroecological farming resilience. However, autonomous complex mixed cropping is proving to be an engineering challenge because of differences in plant height and growth pattern. Strip cropping is technically the simplest mixed cropping system, but widespread use is constrained...

Biodiversity benefits of mixing cropping are well known, but the practice is rare because it increases labour and management requirements. Regenerative strip cropping is the simplest mixed cropping and hypothesized to be economically competitive with autonomous machines. To test this hypothesis, the Hands Free Hectare-Linear Programming (HFH-LP) mo...

Smallholders’ crop farming of Bangladesh has been struggling with farm management strategy, where resource use efficiency, productivity, profitability, and sustainability are the key on-farm constraints. In addition, crop farming is also challenged by various factors related to off-farm value addition and commercialization. However, dealing with ‘o...

Unlabelled: Field size and shape constrain spatial and temporal management of agriculture with implications for farm profitability, field biodiversity and environmental performance. Large, conventional equipment struggles to farm small, irregularly shaped fields efficiently. The study hypothesized that autonomous crop machines would make it possib...

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Given the importance of gender in household and agricultural decision-making including climate change adaptation and mitigation decisions, understanding “within” household gender differences in perception of climate change and eventual impacts is crucial to formulate and design relevant policies and programs. However, studies on climate change, par...

Contributed presentation on the 05th Online Symposium on Agri-Tech Economics for Sustainable Futures, 19-20 September 2022 organized by Global Institute for Agri-Tech Economics (https://www.harper-adams.ac.uk/research/giate/), Food, Land and Agribusiness Management Department, Harper Adams University, Newport, Shropshire, TF108NB, United Kingdom....

Field size constrains spatial and temporal management of agriculture with implications for farm profitability, field biodiversity and environmental performance. Large, conventional equipment struggles to farm small, irregularly shaped fields efficiently. The study hypothesized that autonomous crop machines would make it possible to farm small non-r...

Russia-Ukraine war a wake-up call for Bangladesh’s agriculture sector Link: https://www.thedailystar.net/business/global-economy/news/ukraine-war-could-be-wake-call-bangladeshs-arable-sector-3025946?fbclid=IwAR3eGnkt2Kho0EtAFUarNAkpYUafIm7HsKrVBKQeFDnQZg5WIX3WWV5kXr0#.YoS_bkbO2Zc.facebook

Wetland ecosystem services have come under severe threat globally due to environmental changes and anthropogenic impacts. Understanding the trend and usages of the ecosystem services with associated reasons, conservation attitude and determinants of payment responses of local inhabitants based on wetland proximity can benefit the adjacent communiti...

Al-Amin and Lowenberg-DeBoer (2021). Agricultural robots may herald a new era to the vision of Digital Bangladesh. https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/views/views/agricultural-robots-may-herald-a-new-era-to-the-vision-of-digital-bangladesh-1635516802?fbclid=IwAR2PA1yu4cfLDHoXjqnmJX3iPsQrFmAHNlVdBIlsSAHNHnGvyzQYhQsNGK0. Last Accessed on 27 March 2022...

Research shows that smaller field size favours biodiversity and it is hypothesized that autonomous arable crop equipment would make it possible to farm small fields profitably. To test this hypothesis algorithms were developed for machine time over a range of field sizes. The Hands Free Hectare (HFH) linear programming model was used to assess the...

The environment friendly renewable energy (i.e., solar energy) is expanding day by day to mitigate the demand of electricity in the remote areas. Considering the significance of the solar energy, the present study was conducted to explore the core economics of using solar household system and its impact on rural livelihoods and assessing the welfar...

This study examines the impact of climate change, land fragmentation and soil fertility on rice productivity in Bangladesh. This country is likely to be one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world. This study scrutinizes the possible impacts of climate change on rice productivity through climatic and non-climatic parameters....

The environment friendly renewable energy (i.e., solar energy) acts as a blessing for the energy sector development of Bangladesh. To mitigate the energy crisis, the government takes initiative to enhance the use of solar panel which is expanding day by day in the char areas and rural areas for providing constant supply of electricity. Considering...

The agricultural sector is highly vulnerable to climate change, particularly in drought-prone environments. An understanding of perceptions, adaptation strategies, and their determinants including a gender analysis can benefit vulnerable farmers and policy makers. Using a survey of 360 farming household heads and their spouses, this study identifie...

The agricultural sector is highly vulnerable to climate change, particularly in drought-prone environments. An understanding of perceptions, adaptation strategies, and their determinants including a gender analysis can benefit vulnerable farmers and policy makers. Using a survey of 360 farming household heads and their spouses, this study identifie...

This study uses a two-stage econometric framework based on multilevel mixed-effects linear regression model with nationally representative Household Income Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2010 to investigate the effects of non-farm income on asset ownership of rural Bangladeshi households. Result reveals that non-farm income has a significant pos...

The environment friendly renewable energy (i.e., solar energy) acts as a blessing for the development of Bangladesh. To mitigate the energy crisis, the government takes initiative to enhance the use of solar panel which is expanding day by day in the rural areas and providing constant supply of electricity. Considering the significance of the solar...

This study empirically examines oil price volatility and the impact of oil price changes on the growth of the economy and food security in Bangladesh. The study uses yearly data of macroeconomic variables from 1991 to 2015 and global food security index (GFSI) for the period 2012 to 2015. Furthermore, data of GFSI for previous four years have been...

This study examines the effects of non-farm income on household consumption expenditures in rural Bangladesh. A two-stage endogenous treatment effect model is built on data from a nationally representative Household Income Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2010 to control selection bias. The HIES follows a hierarchical data structure because the survey is...

p>Agriculture sector throughout the world including Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to the negative consequences of climate change as evident in a good number of studies. Accurate climate forecasting may prove a valuable resource in mitigating these consequences in agriculture. The study aims to identify the best performing forecasting method by...

The study scrutinizes the possible impacts of climate change on rice productivity in Bangladesh through climatic and non-climatic parameters. Secondary data were used, for this purpose covering 210 observations corresponding to seven districts with panel data for 30 years during 1982-2011. Simple linear regression model was employed to draw the rel...

This study estimates a translog stochastic production function to examine the impact of land fragmentation and soil fertility on rice producers’ technical efficiency (TE) in Bangladesh. Primary data has been collected for Boro (dry) seasons rice production from 180 farm households using multistage stratified random sampling procedure in May 2015. I...

Fisheries sector in Bangladesh represents as one of the most productive and dynamic sectors in the country. This sector plays a significant role in food security, employment, and foreign exchange earnings in the economy. At present agricultural transformation is taking place in Bangladesh. With the changes of farming system, farmers have started to...

The study scrutinizes the possible impacts of climate change on rice productivity in Bangladesh through climatic and non-climatic parameters. Secondary data were used, for this purpose covering 210 observations corresponding to seven districts with panel data for 30 years during 1982-2011. Simple linear regression model was employed to draw the rel...

A structural change had been taken place in agricultural sub-sectors in the year 1990 and after wards when tax in the agricultural sector had been replaced by subsidy. To know the impact of subsidy in the crops, livestock and fisheries in Bangladesh, ‘Kinked Exponential Growth Model’ was used to estimate the impact of subsidy and other liberalized...

Fisheries sector in Bangladesh represents as one of the most productive and dynamic sectors in the country. This sector plays a significant role in food security, employment, and foreign exchange earnings in the economy. At present agricultural transformation is taking place in Bangladesh. With the changes of farming system, farmers have started to...

Fisheries sector in Bangladesh represents as one of the most productive and dynamic sectors in the country. This sector plays a significant role in food security, employment, and foreign exchange earnings in the economy. At present agricultural transformation is taking place in Bangladesh. With the changes of farming system, farmers have started to...

Fisheries sector in Bangladesh represents as one of the most productive and dynamic sectors in the country. This sector plays a significant role in food security, employment, and foreign exchange earnings in the economy. At present agricultural transformation is taking place in Bangladesh. With the changes of farming system, farmers have started to...

Fisheries sector in Bangladesh represents as one of the most productive and dynamic sectors in the country. This sector plays a significant role in food security, employment, and foreign exchange earnings in the economy. At present agricultural transformation is taking place in Bangladesh. With the changes of farming system, farmers have started to...

p>The present study analyzed the profitability of sweet gourd production under Sandbar Cropping Practice (SCP) and its impact on livelihood improvement of the farmers in Sundorgonj of Gaibandha district in Bangladesh. A total of 60 sweet gourd farmers were selected using stratified random sampling technique. Evidence showed that sweet gourd product...

p>This article determines the impact of land fragmentation and soil fertility on Aus rice producers’ technical efficiency (TE) of Barisal district in Bangladesh. A total of 60 farm households from two villages were selected using stratified random sampling procedure. Detailed input and output data for the Aus were collected in May 2015. Cobb-Dougla...

This article analyses that how rice producers' technical efficiency (TE) in Bangladesh is influenced by land fragmentation and soil fertility. A total of 180 farm households from six villages were selected using multistage stratified random sampling procedure. Translog stochastic frontier model was employed to address this TE. Rice productivity dis...

Fisheries sector in Bangladesh represents as one of the most productive and dynamic sectors in the country. This sector plays a significant role in food security, employment, and foreign exchange earnings in the economy. At present agricultural transformation is taking place in Bangladesh. With the changes of farming system, farmers have started to...

This particular study was conducted based on the agro-ecosystem that lies into the human activity of an agricultural society. Being an agro based country eco-friendly environment is crucial for the reproduction of various species like plants, animals, fisheries etc. and to immune them from extinction. Three Upazilas namely Gouripur, Ishwarganj and...

The study analyzes the change of cropping patterns and its impacts on farmer’s livelihood using farm level survey data. The study reveals that four cropping patterns such as P1 (Boro rice – Fallow - T. Aman rice); P2 (Brinjal -T. Aman rice – Fallow); P3 (Boro rice - T. Aman – Fallow) and P4 (Bean – Fallow - T. Aman rice) were selected for the study...