After graduation, Abdul Rashid returned to the National Agricultural Research Center in Islamabad and began studying soil fertility and plant nutrition.

Because of it, Abdul Rashid had established plant boron analysis, a tactic of systematic nutrient indexing and diagnosing macro- and micronutrient deficiencies in farmer-grown crops which was studied at various greenhouses.

[1] From the mid-1980s to 2008, Abdul Rashid led an R&D program in soil fertility and plant nutrition at the National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad.

[2] Since 2008, Abdul Rashid has been a member of the HarvestZinc Project, a multi-national research initiative, under the leadership of Prof. Ismail Cakmak of Sabanci University in Turkey, which has established the farmer-friendly technology of enriching staple cereal grains with zinc, iodine, and selenium using the agronomic biofortification approach.

Abdul Rashid is on the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of Agronomy (Elsevier) and Communications in Soil Science & Plant Analysis (Taylor & Francis).