Export Agriculture in Sri Lanka: Careers, Curriculum & Future Outlook

📘 Overview

Export Agriculture focuses on the crops that earn Sri Lanka its foreign exchange — tea, spices, coconut and more — and on adding value to them for competitive world markets. Offered by Uva Wellassa University, the country's first entrepreneurial university, the degree pairs agricultural science with strong entrepreneurial and managerial skills. It suits practical, business-minded students who want to turn the nation's plantation and crop base into processed, exportable products.

It earns a future-proof score of 7.0 because export crops and agri-value-addition are central to Sri Lanka's economy and the entrepreneurial focus broadens opportunities, even though the sector carries commodity-price and climate exposure.

📚 What You'll Study

The four-year honours programme spans eight semesters and combines theory with extensive practical and industrial training, with a specialisation chosen from the third year.

• Production and management of export crops (tea, spices, coconut and others)
• Post-harvest technology and value addition
• Crop product and food processing
• Agribusiness management and marketing
• Entrepreneurship and agri-enterprise development
• Quality assurance and export standards
• Specialisation from year 3: Crop Products Technology or Entrepreneurial Agriculture
• Industrial training and a final-year research project

⏳ Duration

This is a four-year Bachelor of Export Agriculture honours degree delivered over eight semesters, including in-plantation and industrial training.

✅ Entry Requirements

This is a Biological Science stream degree. To be eligible you must obtain at least Simple (S) passes in Biology, Chemistry and a third subject chosen from Agricultural Science, Higher Mathematics, Mathematics, Combined Mathematics or Physics at the G.C.E. (Advanced Level) Examination.

• Biology — minimum grade S
• Chemistry — minimum grade S
• Agricultural Science — minimum grade S
• Higher Mathematics — minimum grade S
• Mathematics — minimum grade S
• Physics — minimum grade S

Final selection also depends on your Z-score, which varies by university and district every year — check your eligibility with the free tool on findmydegree.lk.

🏛️ Where It's Offered

• Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka — 105 seats

ℹ️ Entry requirements, seats and universities are sourced from official UGC data (2024/2025 A/L). Career and curriculum details are general guidance — confirm specifics with each university.