Grants and Funding

Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator:

  1. Adaptation and Upscaling of Minor Cereals in the Active Brahmaputra-Jamuna and Ganges Floodplains” (Project ID: TF 113-C/23), funded by Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF), Bangladesh, Grant: $41,000 (2023–2026).

Principal Investigator:

  1. Ecophysiology of Iron Toxicity Tolerance in Rice,” funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Bangladesh, Grant: $8,750 (2023–2025).
  2. Agronomic Management for Yield Improvement of Underutilized Millets,” funded by RMC-RMW of BSMRAU, Grant: $12,000 (2021–2024).
  3. Exploring the Status and Potentials of Minor Cereals in Bangladesh,” funded by KGF, Bangladesh, Grant: $8,000 (2021).
  4. Developing Improved Cropping Systems for Increasing Productivity in Coastal Bangladesh,” funded by MoST, Bangladesh, Grant: $7,500 (2017–2020).
  5. Harnessing the Potentials of Hill Agriculture: Enhancing Crop Production through Sustainable Management of Natural Resources,” funded by KGF, Bangladesh, Grant: $45,000 (2014–2018).
  6. Agronomic and Genetic Improvement of Waterlogging Tolerance in Mungbean (Vigna radiata L.),” funded by the Ministry of Education, Bangladesh, Grant: $11,000 (2015–2018).

Foreign Consultant and Collaborator:

  1. “Coastal Erosion Vulnerability, Monsoon Dynamics, and Human Adaptive Response,” funded by U.S. National Science Foundation (#1660447) and the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (#ARCP2012-23NSG-CRAWFORD), Grant: $71,268 (2017–2020).

Collaborator:

  1. Coastal Ecosystem and Changing Economic Activities: Challenges for Sustainability Transition along Chinese and South Asian Coasts,” funded by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, Grant: $76,000 (2014–2015).

Previous Projects (completed)

  • Assessment of the impacts of land use and modern inputs on soil health and agricultural productivity under the changing environment along Teesta River catchment in Bangladesh as Principal Investigator, funded by RMC.
  • Analysis of cropping system in coastal saline environment in Bangladesh using remote sensing and geographic information system as Principal Investigator, funded by NST.
  • Remote sensing and GIS based analysis of land use change and its driving forces in Meghna-Dhonagoda Irrigation Project as Principal Investigator, funded by RMC.
  • Effects of puddling intensity and crop establishment techniques on the growth and yield of rice and post-rice legume as Principal Investigator, funded by UGC/RMC
  • Growth and yield responses of mungbean genotypes under flooding, wet puddling and saturated soil culture as Principal Investigator, funded by RMC.
  • Effects of seed priming and puddling intensity on stand establishment and yield of mungbean as Principal Investigator, funded by RMC.
  • Evaluating mungbean genotypes tolerant to soil flooding as Principal Investigator as Principal Investigator, funded by RMC
  • Genotypic variation in root growth and water stress tolerance mechanisms of aus rice as Co-Investigator, funded by UGC.
  • Household consumption of pulses, rice and vegetables in Bangladesh funded by BARC.