Regassa, M D and Miriti, P K and Melesse, M B (2023) Farmers’ heterogeneous preferences for traits of improved varieties: Informing demand-oriented crop breeding in Tanzania. Experimental Agriculture, 59. 01-19. ISSN 1469-4441
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Abstract
Understanding farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay for different traits is critical for demand-driven varietal development and designing targeted strategies that stimulate adoption of varieties by farmers. This study uses choice experiment data from a random sample of 1299 Tanzanian farmers to analyze their preferences for traits of groundnut varieties, investigate trade-offs involved in valuation of attributes, and explore heterogeneity in preferences. Results reveal that farmers have strong preferences for groundnut varieties that are high yielding, tolerant to environmental stresses, early-maturing, red-colored, and fetching high sale prices in grain markets. Farmers are willing to pay the highest premium for high-yielding attributes, closely followed by the tolerance trait. Further, a latent class analysis identifies four distinct classes of farmers, confirming considerable heterogeneity in farmers’ preferences for various groundnut traits. A specific distinction is notable between preferences of consumption-oriented and market-oriented farmer classes. Our results have important implications for demand-driven variety development and targeted dissemination of improved varieties.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | Research Program : East & Southern Africa |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Varietal choice, Crop breeding, Choice experiment, Latent class analysis, Groundnut, Tanzania |
| Subjects: | Others > Plant Breeding Others > Tanzania Mandate crops > Groundnut |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2023 09:15 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2023 09:16 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12182 |
| Official URL: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/experiment... |
| Projects: | Accelerated Varietal Improvement and Seed Systems in Africa |
| Funders: | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Acknowledgement: | We thank Gerald A. Lukurugu and Devotha Mchau for their excellent assistance in data collection. We are also grateful for the time and willingness of the groundnut farmers who participated in the experiment. We thank the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions on the manuscript. All errors are the sole responsibility of the authors |
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