About Us
Hub for Smallholders’ Agri-Tech Economics (HSATE) is an academic and research lab at Department of Agricultural Economics in 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 special focus on smallholders’ agricultural economies.
The hub guides smallholders’ farming for maximizing profit and minimizing 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 resources depletion,
restoring ecosystem services and adapting changing environmental scenarios.
The vision of the hub is to facilitate sustainable intensification solutions in agriculture with perspective
opinions and evidence based policy guidelines.
The hub’s mission is to develop human capital through cutting-edge academic and research in the field
of agricultural and environmental economics.
The broad objective of this hub is to work collaboratively with students, academics, researchers,
agribusiness innovators, and policymakers to generate and disseminate knowledge in agricultural and
environmental economics to better serve the world.