Hsate

Hub for Smallholders’ Agri-Tech Economics (HSATE) is an academic and research lab at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. The key contact person of this lab is A. K. M. Abdullah Al-Amin. This research hub primarily concentrates on the economics of sustainable intensification solutions with agri-tech, agroecological farming and regenerative agriculture. Broadly the hub works for large-scale and medium-scale agricultural economies with a special focus on smallholders’ agricultural economies. The hub guides smallholders’ farming to maximize profit and minimize costs of production to uplift the social and economic standards of marginal farmers. The members of the team use econometric and programming approaches to answer cutting-edge research questions for navigating agricultural policy and farm management decision-making while considering social, economic and environmental sustainability. The hub also focuses on environmental economics to better guide conservation policy with a notion of limiting natural resource depletion, restoring ecosystem services and adapting to changing environmental scenarios.