Table 13 Consistency parameters among miracle berry end-users for preferred breeding traits in Synsepalum dulcificum in Benin and Ghana
End-users’ preferred breeding traits and ranking | Rank | Overall ranking agreement | ||
Farmers | Processors | Consumers | ||
Big fruit size | High fruit miraculin content | High fruit miraculin content | 1st | 0.11 |
Early fruiting | Big fruit size | Big fruit size | 2nd | |
High fruit yielding | High fruit edible ratio | Fruit freshness | 3rd | |
Dwarf tree | Fruit freshness | Long fruit shelf life | 4th | |
High fruit miraculin content | High seed portion | High fruit edible ratio | 5th | |
Pair-wise similarity index (lower diagonal) and ranking concordance coefficient (upper diagonal) of preferred trait between end-user groups | ||||
Farmers | Processors | Consumers | ||
Farmers | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
Processors | 0.40 | 0.90 | ||
Consumers | 0.40 | 0.80 | ||