| Preference criteria | Overall | Rank per zone |
|---|
| 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
