Dr. Palash has more than 15 years of teaching and research at Bangladesh Agricultural University. He has published books, research articles and seminar proceedings on an array of agribusiness, supply and value chain issues. His work has examined the marketing, value and supply chain activities of a variety of commodities, including rice, vegetables, livestock and fish. Dr. Palash did research on land use change from crop to fish farming, consumer behavior towards fish and meat, outbreak of Avian Influenza (Bird flu) on production, marketing and consumption of poultry meat and eggs, livelihood adaptation of disadvantaged people of Bangladesh, sustainable groundwater use in northwest regions of Bangladesh, value chain analysis of medicinal and aromatic plants and so on. Dr. Palash earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. He is fluent in Bangla and English, has workable skills in German. His date of birth is 01.03.1980.