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Table 4 Varieties cited in each region

From: Anchoring durum wheat diversity in the reality of traditional agricultural systems: varieties, seed management, and farmers’ perception in two Moroccan regions

 

Variety

Number of citations

Status

Translation

Percentage of farmersa

Percentage of cultivated areab

Geographical distributionc

Pre-Rif

Elhjaoui

1

traditional

-

0.6

0.2

ZN1

 

Guemh

11

traditional

Durum wheat

6.7

2.3

ZN3

 

Guemh beldi

22

traditional

Local durum wheat

13.5

9.4

ZN1,ZN2,ZN3

 

Guemh khel

1

traditional

Black durum wheat

0.6

0.1

ZN3

 

Guemh Lehmar

35

traditional

Red durum wheat

21.5

18.4

ZN1, ZN2

 

Karim

61

modern

-

37.4

27.7

ZN1,ZN2,ZN3

 

Krifla beda

13

traditional

White Krifla d

8.0

5.4

ZN4

 

Krifla kehla

35

traditional

Black Krifla d

21.5

11.0

ZN3,ZN4

 

Lekhel

5

traditional

The black

3.1

1.9

ZN1, ZN3

 

Massa

3

modern

-

1.8

1.2

ZN3

 

Marzak

9

modern

-

5.5

5.2

ZN3

 

Mezrouba

17

traditional

Early

10.4

4.5

ZN3

 

Ourgh

1

modern

-

0.6

1.5

ZN3

 

Pedro

1

modern

-

0.6

0.6

ZN3

 

Technique

2

traditional

-

1.2

0.3

ZN1, ZN2

 

Twinssia

2

traditional

Comes from Tunisia

1.2

1.1

ZN3

 

Zeriâa

30

traditional

Seeds

18.4

8.7

ZN1, ZN3

 

Zeriâa twila

1

traditional

long seeds

0.6

0.2

ZN2

 

Zeriâi Lkhel

1

traditional

Seeds of the black

0.6

0.1

ZN1

Atlas Mountains

Aberyoun

15

traditional

Black awn

14.9

3.9

ZS2, ZS3

 

Chgira lbida

4

traditional

Small white tree

4.0

2.9

ZS1

 

Cocorit

7

modern

-

6.9

0.9

ZS1, ZS2, ZS5

 

Ifermourgh

31

traditional

Wing of the grasshopper (six rows)

30.7

59.4

ZS2, ZS3, ZS6

 

Ilks

2

traditional

Thin spike (four rows)

2.0

0.3

ZS3

 

Irden taghezaft

6

traditional

Long durum wheat

5.9

1.6

ZS3, ZS4, ZS5

 

Isli

1

modern

-

1.0

0.2

ZS5

 

Karim

3

modern

-

3.0

0.5

ZS2, ZS5

 

Lbida touila

6

traditional

Long white

5.9

1.9

ZS1

 

Tabekhoucht

3

traditional

The black

3.0

0.7

ZS2, ZS4

 

Taberyount

6

traditional

Black awn

5.9

2.6

ZS2, ZS3, ZS5

 

Tamellalt

10

traditional

The white

9.9

2.1

ZS1, ZS2, ZS5

 

Toumlilt

27

traditional

White awn

26.7

22.7

ZS1, ZS2, ZS4, ZS6

 

Zerbana

1

traditional

Early

1.0

0.2

ZS4

  1. Variety names in italics: The varieties that together covered 75% of the durum wheat area in each region.
  2. ‘-’: no translation was found.
  3. aPercentage of the interviewed farmers having cited the variety. Since farmers could grow more than one variety, the sum of each column is above 100%. bPercentage of the total durum wheat area surveyed (i.e. sum of the durum wheat areas over the farmers) where the variety was grown. The values of the column sum to 100%. c zones where the variety has been cited. In bold when the variety has been cited at least twice in a given zone. d The meaning of Krifla has not been elucidated. It can refer either to a family name or to a region close to Rabat.