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Professor HSR Rosairo

Professor

Agricultural Sciences

Email : rosairo@agri.sab.ac.lk

Fax : 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.

    Qualifications

  • 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.