On-farm management and participatory evaluation of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan [L.] Millspaugh) diversity across the agro-ecological zones of the Republic of Benin

Table 10 Farmers’ preference criteria of pigeonpea across ecological zones

Preference criteria	Overall					Rank per zone
Preference criteria	TNV	MCR	PCr	Imp	Rank	GZ	SGZ	SZ
Precocity	50	23	49	40.7	1	1	1	3
Resistance to pests and diseases	45	16	45	35.3	2	2	2	1
Short cooking time	39	0	30	23	4	3	5	5
Adaptability to any type of soil	28	5	25	19.3	6	4	8	2
Good taste	38	0	35	24.3	3	5	4	4
High productivity	35	3	23	20.3	5	6	3	7
Cultivable at any time of the year	22	1	10	11	7	7	7	8
High market value	11	2	10	7.7	8	8	6	-
Resistance to storage insects	10	0	5	5	9	9	10	6
Easy for ginning	6	0	1	2.3	11	10	–	10
Drought resistance	11	0	3	4.7	10	10	9	9

GZ Guinean zone, SGZ Sudano-Guinean zone, SZ Sudanian zone, TNV total number of villages in which the criterion is cited, MCR number of villages where the criterion is the major one or ranked first, PCr number of villages in which the criterion was classified among the principal criterion, i.e., among the first five, Imp importance

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