Education
Doctor Abdul Rashid holds Bachelor of Science (Honors) and Master of Science (Honors) from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Doctor Abdul Rashid holds Bachelor of Science (Honors) and Master of Science (Honors) from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Previously, he was previously Director General of the National Agricultural Research Center, from 2006 — 2008.Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief at Pakistan Academy of Sciences. After winning an East West Center scholarship, he received his Doctor of Philosophy in Agronomy and Soil Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu in 1986. He has pursued a well-conceived research program in soil fertility, plant nutrition and fertilizer use, with emphasis on micronutrients.
His researchers have drifted the frontiers of knowledge forward.
He has published widely—peer-reviewed papers,book chapters, encyclopedia books, books, technical reports and advisory materials. Also, his farmer-friendly fertilizer use technologies are formally recommended and widely adapted in Pakistan.
Doctor Rashid is on the Editorial Boards of European Journal of Agronomy (Elsevier) and Communications in Soil Science & Plant Analysis (Taylor & Francis).
As member of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, he administered agricultural and biotechnology research and development at four establishments (ie, National Investigation Agency, Faisalabad. NIAB, Faisalabad; NIFA, Peshawar. And NIBGE, Faisalabad), managed 14 Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Cancer Hospitals and supervised establishment of four new Cancer Hospitals.