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Table 1 Questionnaire of farmers’ attitude to the development and protection of KSR

From: Status and factors influencing on-farm conservation of Kam Sweet Rice (Oryza sativa L.) genetic resources in southeast Guizhou Province, China

 

Questions

Answers

Social characteristics

Q1: Gender

A: Male

B: Female

Q2: Age

A: ≤ 20 years

C: 36–60 years

B: 21–35 years

D: ≥ 61 years

Q3: Education level

A: Illiterate

C: Middle school

B: Primary school

D: High school or above

Farmers’ attitudes concerning the development and influencing factors of KSR

Q4: Will you continue to cultivate KSR? (Choose the next question depending on your answer)

A: Certainly, I will cultivate KSR for hundreds or thousands of years

B: I will cultivate KSR in my life, but uncertain if descendants will cultivate

C: I will cultivate KSR for several years

D: I will not cultivate KSR

Q5: Why do you want to continue to cultivate KSR?

A: Food culture, festival celebrations, belief sacrifice (Culture factor)

B: Taste habits, gift; Rice-Fish-Duck Symbiotic System (Social factor)

C: High market price and make many by-products (Economic factor)

D: Suitable to local climate environment, disease and pest resistance (Environment factor)

Q6: Why don’t you want to continue to cultivate KSR?

A: Dong’s traditional festivals are fading away and the demand of KSR is greatly reduced (Culture factor)

B: The taste of new variety is better than the old KSR; not enough labor because of outside employment (Social factor)

C: Low yield, time and labor consuming, government policy (Economic, management, and policy factor)

D: Unsuitable to local climate condition, disease and pest resistance disappearing (Environment factor)

Q7: What’s your opinion of KSR development tendency?

A: Less and less

C: More and more

B: Maintain the status quo

D: Unknown

Q8: What’s your opinion of taking effective measures to protect KSR?

A: Necessary

B: Unnecessary