Teaching
Returning to his former university, he joined the University of Dhaka as an assistant professor in the Department of Soil Science. He moved up in the ranks until he became a full professor in the department. He held the post of chairman of the Soil Science Department of Dhaka University and dean of the Faculty of Biological Science of the same University. He was also provost of Salimullah Muslim Hall.
Ahmed was responsible for inventing a process of preserving nutrients in the soil and later releasing them according to the needs of the vegetation. Professor Ahmed also worked as visiting professor in Cornell University in the United States in 1984 and the German Technical University and University of Göttingen in Germany in 1984. Ahmed and his current wife, Dr. Anwara Begum, have one adopted child, son Imtaz; he has two others, daughter Susan and son Adam, by a prior marriage. He also has a granddaughter Aurora and Beryl.
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