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Faculty Agricultural Engineering and Technology Irrigation and Water Management Faculty Members Dr. Ashutus Singha

Dr. Ashutus Singha

Associate Professor

PhD in Institute of Environmental and Sustainable development in Agriculture (China), B.Sc in Agricultural Engineering (BAU), M.Sc in Irrigation and Water Management (BAU), ITP Fellow (Belgium)

Research interests: Drought priming, Salinity acclimation, Irrigation and Water Resource Management, IoT-based Smart Farming

ashutus.iwm@sau.ac.bd


+8801722917959
Dept. of Irrigation and Water Management

Positions and Affiliations

  • Associate Professor at Department of Irrigation and Water Management from 1st January 2022 to till date
  • Assistant Professor at Department of Irrigation and Water Management from 1st January 2015 to till date
  • Lecturer at Department of Irrigation and Water Management from 1st January 2013 to 31 December 2014
  • Assistant Provost at Abdus Samad Azad Hall from 18 December 2016 to January 2018
  • Director (Incharge) Guest house- SAU from 10 August 2022 to Till date

Awards and Scholarships

  • International Training Programme " Technology for Integrated Water Management" organized by university of Antwerp, in co-operation with Ghent University, Belgium financial Supported from VLIR-UOS
  • Ph.D Research Fellow at Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (GSCAAS), Beijing
  • Awarded 2022 Beijing Foreign Study Program Student Scholarship

Professional Memberships

  • Krishibid Institution Bangladesh(KIB), 2014
  • Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) M-32546

Attended Conferences and Workshops

  • Overview of Tasmania Institute of Agriculture by Professor Dr. Holger Meinke
  • Wheat research and breeding in the new ara of a high quality reference genome by Professor Dr. Rudi Appels
  • Nitrogen cycling in mixed grass-legume pastures of tropical Brazil by Professor Robert Michael Boddey
  • How to prepare your manuscript for publication by Dr. Mary Williams
  • N enriched Nitrogen to estimate the contribution of non-recoverable root nitrogen to soil following a legume crop. by Dr. Robert Michael Boddey
  • Greenhouse gas emmisions from soil. How soil measurement can help us to explain what we measure above ground. by Dr. Stefanie Goldberg
  • Prospective of sustainability of assessment in agriculture by Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner
  • CO2 elevation modules stomatal response of plants to drought stress by Dr. Fulai liu
  • Multiple development mechanisms for parent origin effect mutant maize by Professor A. Mark Settles
  • Some old and new problems in risk sharing-ovwrview with applications in agricultural risk management by Dr. Enrico Biffis
  • Precision Agriculture in Israel- Modern Technology used in Agriculture by Raanan Katzir
  • How to prepare a manuscript for nature publishing group and cell press by Lewis Collins
  • High impact writing in Agricultural science by Dr. Saddam hossain
  • Combating desertification through afforestation and modernize agriculture by Dr. Itshack Moshe
  • Japan direct payment scheme for collective stewardship of farmland and common property resource by professor Dr. Junichi Ito
  • Introduction of food policy to save local food production and food security by Professor Dr. Akitsu Motoki
  • Israel agriculture and livestock waste managementent by Beni lew
  • Fertigation of orchards spatial variability in N usage and losses by Shahar Baram
  • How to effectively conduct postgraduate research by Yean Larondelle from Catholic university of leuven
  • International workshop on Frontiers in agricultural water use efficiency: Interdisciplinary research from plant physiology to remote sensing organized by center for Agricultural water research in China, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China on 25 November 2019
  • International Workshop on Frontiers in Molecular Environmental Soil Science organized by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, China on 09 May 2019 [Speaker- Prof. Jianjun Yang, IEDA, CAAS, China; Prof. Xibai Zeng, IEDA, CAAS, China; Prof. Changxiong Zhu, Vice Director of IEDA, CAAS, China]
  • International Training Workshop on Water-Saving and Protected Agriculture Technology in Modern Dry Farming organized by Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GAAS) on 22 November 2021 to 10 December 2021.
  • International Workshop on Dryland Agriculture and Food Security organized by our group (CAAS), ICARDA, ICRISAT, ICBA and FAO on 23-24 November 2021.
  • International agricultural research conference Hosted by the center for international agricultural research, CAAS, Organized by the agricultual information institute, CAAS on 15th December 2022.

Training

  • Training Course on "Water-Efficient and Climate-Smart Irrigation Management arranged by BARC. Date: 18-20 February 2024, Venue: Training Room 301, BARC, Dhaka

Mentorship and Supervisory Work (Undergraduate)

  • Graduate Supervision Project titled "Rapid Sand Filtration Technique to reduce Iron in SAU Campus" Researcher -KAMRAN HOSSAIN
  • Undergraduate Supervision Project titled "Performance evaluation of chowmuhani rubber dam on sonai river in Habiganj" Researcher -Mithun Das & Raffia Shaheen.
  • Undergraduate Supervision Project titled "Assessment of water quality of Sylhet city and its restaurants" Researcher -Abdus Shatter al Shahin & Ojifa Yeasmin Shila.
  • Undergraduate Supervision Project titled "Water quality measurement in Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) campus" Researcher -Salatun Begum & Sumi Rani Nath.
  • Undergraduate Supervision Project titled "Drought priming at vegetative growth stages alleviated salinity stress in Wheat plants" - Researcher -khalada Akter Runa, Nargis Akter and Naqib

Mentorship and Supervisory Work (MS)

  • Assessment of soil and water management practices in sandbar cropping system for producing pumpkin in riverine areas of Bangladesh by Md. Ashraful
  • Mulching effect on Soil Carbon Sequestration (soil characteristics) and on the growth and yield of Spinach (Basella alba) by FARHANA AKTER MITU
  • Assessment of Irrigation Scheduling by Drip Irrigation System to Improve Water Use Efficiency on Tomato by Nargis Akter

Language

  • Bengali
  • English
  • Chinese