SSRI, NARC undertakes priority research for the National Agricultural Research System (NARS) through active participation in multi-disciplinary R&D initiatives. The main research areas of Social Sciences include:

• Baseline Surveys
• Diagnostic and Policy Studies
• Impact Studies (Technologies, environment and project impact)
• Assessment and Evaluation of Research and Development Projects
• Livelihood and Poverty
• Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness
• Agriculture Production and Value Chains
• Feasibilities for Enterprise Development
• Economics of Alternative Technologies
• Adoption and Diffusion of Technologies
• Rural development and social change
• Gender and Development Studies
• Climate impacts, coping and adaptations at farm level
• Human Resource Development (National/International)
• Advisory services on statistical and economic analysis of on-station and on-farm research data to biological scientists