Indentifying farmers’ preferences and constraints to maize production in two agro-ecological zones in Burkina Faso

Table 4 Mean rank values for preferred traits from formal survey

Traits	Agro-ecological zone		Overall	Mann–Whitney U	Asymp. Sig. (two-tailed)
Traits	North-Sudan	South-Sudan	Overall	Mann–Whitney U	Asymp. Sig. (two-tailed)
High yield	1.41	1.63	1.50	357.50	0.35
Early maturity	1.91	1.68	1.83	255.50	0.14
Drought tolerant	1.89	1.89	1.89	121.00	0.98
Tolerance to Striga	1.75	2.50	2.17	21.00	0.07
Large grain size	2.00	2.25	2.22	3.00	0.67
Tolerance to diseases	3.00	2.27	2.38	4.00	0.12
Taste	2.63	2.00	2.56	1.50	0.25
Resistance to storage pests	2.67	2.54	2.60	69.00	0.51
High flour density	2.92	2.14	2.63	20.50	0.02

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