Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

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Professor H S R Rosairo

Position: Professor

rosairo@agri.sab.ac.lk

Office: +94-0452280041

Fax: +94-0452280041

Qualifications

Post-doctoral Fellowship

Research on farmer entrepreneurial attitudes

2012

Department of Development and Economic Studies

University of Bradford,

West Yorkshire, UK.

 

PhD

Agribusiness and International Rural Development

 

2010

Faculty of Commerce

Lincoln University, Canterbury,

New Zealand.

MBA

 

Business Administration

1998

University of Colombo.

Cumaratunga Munidasa Mawatha,

Colombo 3, Sri Lanka.

 

B.Sc. (Agric.) Hons. 2nd Class Upper Division

Agriculture

1990

University of Peradeniya.

BSc Hons Agric (PDN)

MBA (Col)

PhD (Lincoln, NZ)

Research Interests

  • Agribusiness Management
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Farmer Organizations/Companies

Recent Publications

  1. Rosairo, H.S.R., Kawamura, T. and Peiris, TLGS, 2004, The coir fibre industry in Sri Lanka: reasons for its decline and possible turnaround strategies, Agribusiness – An International Journal, Wiley Periodicals Inc., Vol 20 (4), pp 495-516.
  1. Rosairo, H.S.R., 2005 Motivation of manual workers through safe use of pesticides, The Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Vol 1 (1), Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Sabaragamuwa university of Sri Lanka.
  1. Rosairo, H.S.R., Lyne, M. C., Martin, S. K. and Moore, K., 2012, Factors affecting the performance of farmer companies in Sri Lanka: Lessons for farmer-owned marketing firms, Agribusiness: An International Journal, Vol 28(4), pp 505-517.
  1. Rosairo, H. S. Rohitha and Potts, David J., (2016) A study on entrepreneurial attitudes of upcountry vegetable farmers in Sri Lanka, Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, Vol. 6 Iss: 1, pp.39 – 58. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JADEE-07-2014-0024
  1. Esham, M., Jacobs, B., Rosairo, H. S. R., and Siddighi, B. B., 2017, Climate Change and Fod Security: A Sri Lankan Perspective, Environment, Development and Sustainability, DOI: 10.1007/s10668-017-9945-5
  2. Prasadini, W. M. T., and Rosairo, H. S. R., 2017, Consumer preferences for selected exotic flowering pot plants: A market assessment study, Sri Lanka Journal of Food and Agriculture, 3(2), pp 21-27.