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

Table 9 Practice of selection, selection stage and persons involved in the selection in the different zones

Zone	Percentage of farms where selection is practiced	Selection stage (%)^a			Persons involved in the selection process (%)^b
Zone	Percentage of farms where selection is practiced	seed	plot	spike/plant	man	woman	farmer (man) and family
ZN1	71.4	100.0	2.9	5.7	11.4	85.7	2.9
ZN2	85.7	100.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0	0.0
ZN3	30.1	92.0	4.0	28.0	64.0	24.0	12.0
ZN4	37.5	100.0	16.7	33.3	83.3	0.0	16.7
Nord	46.5	97.2	4.2	15.3	34.7	58.3	6.9
ZS1	100.0	13.3	0.0	86.7	86.7	0.0	13.3
ZS2	95.5	38.1	0.0	61.9	66.7	0.0	33.3
ZS3	81.5	68.2	0.0	31.8	31.8	0.0	68.2
ZS4	75.0	50.0	16.7	33.3	66.7	0.0	33.3
ZS5	100.0	16.7	0.0	83.3	66.7	16.7	16.7
ZS6	78.3	22.2	0.0	77.8	77.8	0.0	22.2
Sud	87.1	37.5	1.1	61.4	55.8	1.9	42.3

^aThe value corresponds to the percentage of farms where selection is practiced at a given stage. Since farmers had the possibility to give multiple answers, the sum of each line is above 100%.
^bThe value corresponds to the percentage of the surveyed farms where selection is practiced by a given category of person.
For a and b, the percentages were computed among the farms where selection is practiced.

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