Md. Jahurul Islam
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics
Khulna Agricultural University, Khulna
Md. Jahurul Islam
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics
Khulna Agricultural University, Khulna
Md. Jahurul Islam is a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Khulna Agricultural University. He earned his MS in Agricultural Economics at Gazipur Agricultural University and a B.Sc. in the same subject from the Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Md Jahurul Islam is an aspiring agricultural economist who studies agricultural economics, agricultural marketing, agricultural value chains, and entrepreneurship development, as well as environmental issues, ecosystem services, and resource economics. His current research focuses on the economic, financial, and efficiency analysis of jute production: an empirical study of selected regions in Bangladesh. Additionally, he examines the impact of rural credit on the technical efficiency of Boro rice production in Bangladesh.
Mr. Islam has been teaching courses on principles of economics, agricultural economics, basic and intermediate microeconomics, the economy of Bangladesh, veterinary economics, production economics, econometrics, and mathematical economics. Before joining KAU, Mr. Md. Jahurul Islam was a researcher at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). At this leading civil society think tank, he researched various macroeconomic issues, including climate change and SDGs, budget analysis, monetary and fiscal policy, etc. He also worked as a research analyst at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), where he was engaged in analyzing the various microeconomic datasets, such as the Labor Force Survey (LFS) and Household Income Expenditure (HIES) survey conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) conducted by IFPRI.
He started his career as a Research Assistant at the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) in a project titled “Study on Employment, Productivity, and Sectoral Investment in Bangladesh.” The project mainly focused on exploring employment and investment scenarios in Bangladesh and examining the livelihood and asset structures of vulnerable communities in rural and urban areas.
Secured Merit scholarship for excellent achievements during the tenure of Master’s and Bachelor studies.
Awarded a six-month fellowship program under the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) funded by Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF) for the completion of Master’s thesis.
Khulna Agricultural University Research System (KAURES) funded Project (as PI): Economic, Financial, and Efficiency Analysis of Jute Production: An Empirical Evidence from the Selected Regions of Bangladesh. (Fiscal Year: 2025-26)
Assistant Professor (22 November 2022- Present)
Department of Agricultural Economics, Khulna Agricultural University (KAU), Khulna
Lecturer (22 November 2020- 21 November 2022)
Department of Agricultural Economics, Khulna Agricultural University (KAU), Khulna
Head (Acting) (01 February 2021- 31 January 2023)
Department of Agricultural Economics, Khulna Agricultural University (KAU), Khulna
Programme Associate (Research) (17 February 2020- 21 November 2020)
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Research Officer (December 2018 - January 2020)
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)
Research Assistant (January 2018-November 2018)
South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM)
MS Fellow (May 2016-October 2016)
Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF)