Md. Shah Alamgir

• Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural Sciences
• Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences

Introduction The unique characteristics of pineapples as a perennial plant, which guarantee their quick proliferation and adoption in both the tropics and subtropics, readily justify their economic significance. Although pineapple is a popular tropical fruit among Bangladeshi citizens, they continue to produce fewer pineapples than other internatio...

Bangladesh’s economy depends heavily on agriculture, which therefore poses a formidable challenge to ending food insecurity. Education, workforce development, and technical field knowledge upgrades are required for this contest to increase the efficiency of the agricultural industry. The modern agriculture sector is prioritized in terms of sustaina...

This paper examines the farm income differences, income inequality of farm households, parameters of income variability that ascertain vulnerability levels, and cost-income variability of agricultural crops in four districts of Mymensingh division in Bangladesh. Six hundred farm households from Mymensingh division were used as the source of data fo...

Mungbean is an important indigenous vegetable legume providing protein for the rural and urban poor in South and Southeast Asia. This study was conducted to analyze the value chain, determine the value addition at different levels of value chain of mungbean and identify some constraints of mungbean marketing in Bangladesh. Using a structured questi...

Most of the marketing operators consider the mud crab business to be a profitable and emerging business due to the high demand in the international market. The present study determines value addition at different actors-based activities in the supply chains. The primary data was collected from 100 respondents (40 collectors, 10 fatteners, 20 depot...

Climate change and it's variability cause different biotic and abiotic stresses that negatively affecting the agricultural crops and the livelihoods of coastal farmers. But data and information regarding these issues are scarce in Bangladesh. Therefore, the study was conducted to assess the adaptation knowledge and strategies to cope with climate v...

The study analyzed the food security and dietary diversity of tea workers in Lakkatura Tea Garden and Ootterbhag Tea garden in greater Sylhet district of Bangladesh. A total of 200 respondents (100 from each tea estate) were interviewed to evaluate the food security and dietary diversity. The study found that average daily per capita calorie intake...

The study was accomplished to examine the impact of agricultural modernization on sustainable livelihood among the tribal and non-tribal farmers in Bangladesh. Two districts had been selected purposively as study areas which were Sherpur and Mymensingh districts. A total of 160 households (i.e., 80 samples from each district and 40 from tribal and...

Potato production is becoming one of the major profitable crops among the famers in the northeastern part of Bangladesh. This study investigates the occupational status, land tenure arrangement, household income scenarios, and estimates the level of costs and net income variation for potato production in the greater Sylhet areas of Bangladesh by us...

Rice is the main cash crop and staple food for people of Bangladesh. Per capita consumption of rice is about 170 kg per year. After independence, rice production gradually increases in Bangladesh, however, due to population pressure; a sharp gap exists between production and consumption during the period of 1972 to 2008. Despite pressure from overp...

Rice is the main cash crop and staple food for people of Bangladesh. Per capita consumption of rice is about 170 kg per year. After independence, rice production gradually increases in Bangladesh, however due to population pressure; a sharp gap exists between production and consumption during the period of 1972 to 2008. Despite pressure from overpo...

The study examines the profitability and resource use efficiency analysis of poultry feed mills of Bangladesh covering Dhaka, Gazipur, Narsingdi, Kishoreganj and Mymensingh districts. Thirty feed mills which categorized as; high, medium and low quality on the basis of feed conversion ratio (FCR), were purposively selected. The primary and secondary...

Widespread poverty is the most serious threat and social problem that Bangladesh faces. Regional vulnerability to climate change threatens to escalate the magnitude of poverty. It is essential that poverty projections be estimated while bearing in mind the effects of climate change. The main purpose of this paper is to perform an agrarian sub-natio...

Widespread poverty is the most serious threat and social problem that Bangladesh faces. Regional vulnerability to climate change threatens to escalate the magnitude of this poverty. It is essential that projections of poverty be made while bearing in mind the effects of climate change. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the agrarian s...

The study examines the different channels of receiving foreign remittances and measures their relative efficiency in selected areas of Sylhet region in Bangladesh. The study was carried out based on the primary data collected from eight villages of Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts under Sylhet division. The sample size was 104 considering 52 remitt...

In the cyclone prone coastal zone of Bangladesh, engaging in early cropping of rice may potentially enable farmers to reduce cyclone risks and reshape their livelihood by changing their income status. A binary logistic regression analysis is used to identify determinants for early cropping and finds that households with more educated household head...

This study develops a rice policy model in order to estimate policy cost to mitigate the variation of rice price in Bangladesh which will be affected by climate change. Future projections show that support price policy by rice procurement can mitigate severe price falls, in favour of famers. Subsidized price policy by rice distribution can mitigate...

This study develops a rice policy model in order to estimate policy cost to mitigate the variation of rice price in Bangladesh which will be affected by climate change. Future projections show that support price policy by rice procurement can mitigate severe price falls, in favour of famers. Subsidized price policy by rice distribution can mitigate...

The present study was an attempt to determine the factors affecting the livelihood of the socioeconomic improvement of migrants and to analyze the causes of rural-urban migration in slum areas. Slum areas have no available formal education facilities and slum people were found to be engaged in rickshaw pulling, day labourer, petty business, small j...

The present study was an attempt to determine the factors affecting the livelihood of the socioeconomic improvement of migrants and to analyze the causes of rural-urban migration in slum areas. Slum areas have no available formal education facilities and slum people were found to be engaged in rickshaw pulling, day labourer, petty business, small j...