Agrotechnology

Abdullahil Baque

Abdullahil Baque
Professor, Faculty of Agriculture
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Bangladesh

Biography

Dr. Md. Abdullahil Baque obtained his M.S. degree in Agronomy with distinction from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Salna, Gazipur, Bangladesh as a National Science and Technology fellow. He has completed his Ph.D. in 2010 from Chungbuk National University, South Korea and also he has worked as a Post-doctoral researcher in the field of stress physiology and plat secondary metabolism under Brain Korea fellowship programme. Currently he has been working as a Professor since 2014 in the Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e- Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. At present he is devoted in research and teaching activities related to climate change adaptation, especially enhancement of salt and drought tolerant capability in crop plants to well-adapt with changing climate, development of abiotic stress tolerance crop varieties, seed priming, quality seed production and marketing, fertilizer management for reducing yield gap of crops, dry land farming, climate risk assessment, development of parent lines of hybrid rice and maize that can be well-adapted with the changing climate. He has developed and released two hybrid maize varieties that can be grown all year round in Bangladesh. He has published five books, one book chapter in springer, two patents approved by Korean government and more than 56 research articles and review papers in reputed journals. His research interest is to continue work on development of abiotic stress tolerance crop varieties that can be withstand in abiotic stress conditions.

Research Interest

Crop Production Technology, Crop Physiology, Stress Physiology, Crop Modeling, Risk Management in Agriculture, Plant Water Relationship, Weed Science, Sustainable Agriculture, Dryland Agriculture and Water Shed Management, Management of Problem Soils, Biotechnological Improvement of Agronomic Crops, Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farming, Plant Nutrition, Seed Science & Technology, Principle of Crop Production, Agrometrology, Fundaments of Agronomy