On-Farm Evaluation of Beans Varieties for Adaptation and Adoption in Kigoma Region in Tanzania

Table 5

Farmers evaluation criteria of five bean varieties at the end of three years project, 2006.

Variety	Criteria										Total	Rank
	Se	Ta	Co	Ma	Mark	Yield	Disease	Pest	C	S
Lyamu	4	4	5	4	3	4	4	3	2	3	36	1
Jesca	3	3	4	2	3	5	3	3	5	3	34	2
Uyole	1	1	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	19	5
Kablan	5	5	3	2	4	1	2	3	3	2	30	3
Kigo	3	2	3	1	2	1	3	3	3	4	25	4

Key: Se = large seed size, Ta = good taste, Co = short cooking time, Ma = early maturity, Mark = high market demand, yield = high yielding, disease = disease resistance, pest = insect-pest resistance, C = cooking quality, and S = suitability to short rainfall farming system. Varieties: Lyamu = Lyamungo 90, Jesca, Uyole = Uyole 94, Kablan = Kablanketi, and Kigo = Kigoma yellow.
Scores: 5 = highly preferred, 1 = least preferred.