In terms of research division, the research areas of the Agricultural Economics and Rural Development (AERD) department faculty members at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU):
- Agricultural marketing and price analysis
- Agricultural policy analysis
- Agribusiness and value chain analysis
- Environmental and resource economics
- Food and nutrition security
- Gender and development
- Rural livelihoods and poverty reduction
- Agricultural finance and credit analysis
- Agricultural production economics
- Climate change and adaptation in agriculture
- Natural resource management and conservation
- Agricultural extension and education
- Socioeconomic impacts of agricultural development
- Agricultural trade and international economics.
- Aquaculture Economics
- Organic Agriculture Markets, and so on.