Farmers' preferences for East African highland cooking banana 'Matooke' hybrids and local cultivars

Table 7 Men and women farmers' preferences differences for tested cultivars

Sites	Men and women preference scores	Quartiles			Mean rank		P-Value
Sites	Men and women preference scores	Lower preference scores	Median preference scores	Upper preference scores	Negative R	Positive R	P-Value
Kawanda	Men	47.50	60.00	79.47	9.44	11.36	0.239^ns
	Women	42.09	69.23	78.98
Mbarara	Men	27.89	48.76	65.31	9.17	11.07	0.031^**
	Women	32.94	55.18	66.27
Maruku	Men	44.55	57.64	88.89	13.60	7.40	0.261^ns
	Women	40.96	57.54	86.44
Mitalula	Men	35.80	56.82	74.44	13.79	9.22	0.049^**
	Women	36.90	53.57	66.67
Lyamungo	Men	40.10	60.11	82.40	10.36	14.31	0.316^ns
	Women	50.26	60.62	78.19

^** indicate significant at P < 0.01, while ns indicates non-significant at P > 0.05

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