Dr. Md. Mijan Hossain, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology at the College of Agriculture, OUAT, Chiplima, holds an M.Sc. (Agri.) in Plant Pathology from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, and a Ph.D. in Agriculture from Gifu University, Japan. He completed postdoctoral research at Okayama University under the JSPS fellowship. With over 12 years of teaching and research experience, he has published 22+ papers and trained farmers in mushroom spawn production and cultivation.