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On-Going Research -2023 (Treasury Funded)

Possibilities of Intensifying Dairy Farming Systems in Dry Zone Sri Lanka
Up Scaling Floriculture Production System to Export Market for Sustainable Rural Development: An Action Research with Small Scale Floriculture Farmers in Upcountry Sri Lanka
Economic Analysis of Processed Fruit and Vegetable Exports from Sri Lanka
Evaluation of the effects of the economic crisis on the fruits and vegetable sector; production, marketing and consumption
Organization, Behaviour and Performance of Poultry Feed Industry in Sri Lanka: Unravelling Issues
Eco-system-based planning and design guidelines for reservation and rehabilitation of small village tank system
Economic crisis-induced agricultural input supply constraints leading to food insecurity: Seed/planting materials and other inputs
Economic crisis-induced agricultural input supply constraints leading to food insecurity: Extension and Training
Economic crisis-induced agricultural input supply constraints leading to food insecurtiy: Land and water management

On-Going Training-2023 (Treasury Funded)

Awareness programme on increasing household food security for communities in rural and peri-urban areas
Awareness programme for rural women and youth farmers on opportunities to becoming agri-entrepreneurs

External Funding

Climate Adapted Farming Practices and Climate Adaptation of Vulnerable Groups in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka- World Vision Lanka (WVL)
LoA "Leveraging the integrated e-extension services to minimize the Sri Lankan agricultural sector vulnerability to climate shocks”-Food & Agriculture Organization
Market Functionality Index- World Food Programm
Support to ‘Govimina’ Newspaper & Govimina Magazine (Tamil)- DevPro Guaranteed Ltd

At a time when the attention of the scientific community was focused on technological advances in agriculture based primarily on the development of high yielding varieties, it came to be perceived that social, economic and institutional factors required equal attention if such technological advances were to serve farmers and consumers alike over the long term. The HARTI was established in order to generate a range of policy analysis that would cover those key determinants of human and resource development in the agrarian sector. The institute was established in 1972 as a statutory board in collaboration with the UNDP/FAO, which functions under the Ministry of Agriculture.
It has developed into the premier national Institute in the field of socio-economic research relating to the use of land and water in Sri Lanka and has also developed the requisite skills and infrastructure for providing relevant training to farmers, field workers and managers in both the state and non-state sectors. The name of the Institute was changed as Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute in February 1995.