What is it about?
Cassava has been identified as a commodity that could generate desired economic growth, fight poverty and improve food security in Ghana. Many varieties have been developed to increase adoption for livelihood improvement. However adoption rates are very low over the years. Through choice experiment we have shown that farmers preferences are not emphasized hence their low adoption.
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Why is it important?
The results revealed that farmers attached greater importance to in-soil storage and disease resistance traits of cassava than productivity trait. Thus, for breeding priority setting, the fact that farmer’s preferences for variety traits determine to a large extent their choice of a variety, breeding should satisfy the demand of farmers.
Perspectives
I hope this article makes breeders consider more of farmers preferred traits rather than economic traits during breeding. Low adoption of improved crop varieties in developing countries has been of great concern. This article has thrown more light on what is probably the problem concerning adoption of improved crop varieties in developing countries. I hope you find the article thought--provoking.
Patricia Pinamang Acheampong
CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Ghana
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This page is a summary of: How does Farmer Preference matter in Crop variety Adoption? The case of Improved Cassava varieties’ Adoption in Ghana, Open Agriculture, November 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/opag-2018-0052.
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