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Table 6 Constraints encountered by pigeonpea farmers and coping strategies

From: Pigeonpea [(Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.)] production system, farmers’ preferred traits and implications for variety development and introduction in Benin

Departments/municipalities

Constraints (ranked from main important to less important)

Coping strategies developed by

Collines (Savalou, Glazoué and Ouèssè)

Difficulty to harvest

Hired labor and mutual aid

Production negatively affected by high rainfall

Left with no option

Lack of financial resource

Left with no option

Zou (Zagnanado and Djidja)

Difficulty to harvest

Hired Labor

Difficulty for threshing

Hired Labor

Lack of financial resource to implement agricultural operations

Atcholou” mutual aid to carry out cultivation operations

Insects attack

Left with no option

Plateau (Pobè an Ketou)

Low yield

Left with no option

Lack of financial resource to carry out at appropriate time production activities

Left with no option

Non-availability of quality seed

Reuse of saved seed

Difficulty to have access to market

Left with no option

Couffo

Lack of quality seed (low rate of germination)

Reuse of saved seed

Low yield

Purchase cultivars of CARDER variety (a variety introduced by extension service)

Insect attack on flowers and seeds

Use of insecticides