Research Projects - Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman

Ongoing Research Project

Title:

Fertilizer Management and Plant Probiotic-Assisted Rhizoengineering in Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon footprint in Crop Cultivation (SP 13692)

The research program is awarded under the Higher Education Acceleration and Transformation (HEAT) Project of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh. Prof. Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman is leading the project as a Sub-Project Manager (SPM). It is a three-year research project commenced on August 2025 with a total fund Tk. 5.35 crore funded by the government of Bangladesh and World Bank. Bangladesh is predominantly an agricultural country. The current high input envisioned agriculture is vulnerable to land degradation, threat to land carrying capacity, and fragile for food safety and security issues. Being an over-populated country, its land and water resources are intensively used and severely degraded. Moreover, climate change brought manifold threats to our agriculture and environment, which pushed the country towards food insecurity. Again, we have insufficient reliable data on greenhouse gas emission and crop life cycle-based carbon footprint. Such data are indispensable for formulating our national agricultural planning and to provide to the international communities/organizations like Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) etc. Under such scenarios, accomplishment of the proposed sub-project is highly relevant for turning our agriculture sustainable and productive. Bangladesh agriculture is vulnerable to climate change and conduction of cutting-edge research under changing climate to find adaptation and mitigation strategies is a must. Therefore, capacity building of the Department of Soil Science of Gazipur Agricultural University is also very much pertinent of the ongoing research project. The objectives of the research:

The general objective of the study is to ensure sustainably productive agriculture, and ecologically sound and bioactive environment which ultimately lead to comfortable climate habitats for living beings.

The specific objectives are:

Research projects completed

As a Principal investigator:

1. ‘Feed the Future Bangladesh Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Activity’ project funded by the USAID for the duration of 2024. Worked as a Focal point of the GAU component.
2. ‘UKRI GCRF South Asian Nitrogen Hub’ (SANH) – A Coordinated project among South Asian Countries and United Kingdom for the duration of 2019-2024. Working as a Principal Investigator of Gazipur Agricultural University (former BSMRAU) component (RPO 21), and SANH Country Lead, Bangladesh.
3. Towards INMS. International Nitrogen Management Systems, A GEF funded Research project for the duration 2017-2021. Working as the Lead Scientist in the South Asian Demo Site.
4. Modeling Climate Change Impact on Bangladesh Agriculture (CRP II), Phase 2 for the duration of December 2020 to November 2024– Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF), Bangladesh funded project. Working as a Deputy Coordinator of the project.
5. ‘Soil Structural Stability and Carbon Sequestration in Soils under Gazipur District of Bangladesh’ – RMC, BSMRAU funded project for the duration of 2017-2020.
6. Documentation of nutrient statuses and effect of integrated nutrient management in the BSMRAU technology village’ – RMC, BSMRAU funded project for the year of 2014-15.
7.  “Carbon Sequestration in Soils of Bangladesh”. A four-year project ended in December 2013 funded by GoB, IDA & IFAD under the Sponsored Public Goods Research Project through NATP Phase 1 (BARC, Bangladesh).
8. Development of village agriculture for food security and field laboratory for higher education – University Grants Commission (UGC) funded project for the year of 2013-14.
9. ‘Agricultural use of household waste for rice and tomato cultivation’. It was a two-year project for 2009-2011 funded by University Grants Commission, Bangladesh.
10. ‘Agricultural Use of Household Waste in terms of P supplementation and Soil Conditioning’ under the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University endowment fund for the period of 2008 to 2009.

As a Co-Investigator:

1. Improvement of soil health and crop productivity of major problem soils of Bangladesh through organic amendments (Project ID 135). It was a coordinated PBRG research project funded by NATP Phase 2 of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), Bangladesh for the duration of 2018-2021.
2.  ‘Modeling Climate Change Impact on Bangladesh Agriculture’ – Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF) funded project for the duration of 2015-2018.
3. ‘Adaptation of Improved Management Practices for Sustaining Soil Fertility and Crop Productivity in Intensively Cropping Systems’ – Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF) funded project for the duration of 2015-2018.
4.  “Influence of free-living nitrogen fixing bacteria on the growth and yield of sugarcane”. It’s a two-year project for 2010-11 and 2011-12 funded by Ministry of Science, Information & Communication Technology, Government of Bangladesh.
5. “Assessment of traditional and modern technologies in climatically vulnerable ecosystems and developments of strategy for combating impacts of climate change in Bangladesh” It’s a one-year project starting from August 2012 funded by Planning Commission of Bangladesh.
6. ‘Reducing Risks from Arsenic Contamination for Poor People’ (IRRI Ref. No.: DPPC2008-07) funded by IFAD.
7. ‘Effect of industrial effluents on crops and socioeconomic conditions in Gazipur district, Bangladesh for the period of 2008-2009.

Major Grants List