Texas Tech University

Mahjabin Ferdaous Mim

Ph.D. Student
Department of Plant and Soil Science

Email: mmim@ttu.edu

I wish to revolve towards sustainable agriculture and become an insightful researcher. I have started working in the project entitled by "Establishing climate smart commodities with reduced greenhouse gas footprints to enhance environmental and economic sustainability in the Texas High Plains". This project aims to develop low-cost greenhouse gas emission proxies for climate-smart commodities, assess spatial adoption patterns using remote sensing, quantify economic outcomes, address sociological barriers, and expand a producer-teaching-producer network. I am quite intriguid by the soil and soil dwelling microbiome. I want to understand, learn and assume what will be happening if those tiny microbial entities are altered.

One of my other projects "Sorgum Commodity project" aims focusing on the advantages of integrating sorghum into continuous cotton systems in the Texas High Plains. This includes assessing crop yield, soil health, soil microbiomes and economic and environmental sustainability. The knowledge from the project will help quantify realistic advantage of the rotation compared to the continuous cropping in terms of farm productivity as well. It extends on research farms and producer-managed pivots to assess the rotation's benefits, contributing crucial insights for sustainable agriculture in the semi-arid southwest High Plains. Love for science encouraged me work with several research papers from where 2 are already published in peer-reviewed journals, and others are in process.

Mahjabin Ferdaous Mim