Table 4.

Results of the preference analyses conducted during the wet seasons of 2008–2013.

Year	Trials	Sites	Ranking of most preferred varieties/breeding lines				Correlations between preferences
			1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Male vs. Female	Farmers vs. Researchers	Farmers vs. yield
2008	On-station	Site 1	Amal-Mana	Sabita	SR 26 B	Sumati	0.61**	0.84***	0.35
	On-farm	Site 1	SR 26B	Amal-Mana	CSRC(S) 21-2-5-B-1-1	Sumati	0.75**	0.92***	0.15
2009	On-station	Site 1	CSRC(S) 21-2-5-1-1	Geetanjali	Amal-Mana	Sabita	0.85***	0.90***	0.86***
	On-farm (3)a	Site 1	CSRC(S) 21-2-5-1-1	Geetanjali	Amal-Mana	SR 26 B/ Sabita	0.10	0.48	0.96***
		Site 2	CSRC(S) 21-2-5-1-1	Geetanjali	Amal-Mana	SR 26 B	0.62	0.91***	0.19
		Site 3	CSRC(S) 21-2-5-1-1	Geetanjali	Amal-Mana	Sabita	0.85**	0.90***	0.73**
2010	On-station	Site 1	Geetanjali	Amal-Mana	Sabita	CSRC(S) 21-2-5-1-1/ SR 26B	0.91***	0.94***	0.72*
	On-farm (3)	Site 1	Geetanjali	Amal-Mana	CSRC(D) 7-0-4/ CSRC(S) 21-2-5-1-1	–	0.94***	0.91***	0.50
		Site 2	Amal-Mana	Geetanjali	CSRC(S) 21-2-5-1-1/Sabita	–	0.85**	0.81**	0.74*
		Site 3	Geetanjali	Amal-Mana	CSRC(S) 21-2-5-1-1	CSRC(D) 7-0-4	0.93***	0.78*	0.74
2011	On-station	Site 1	CSRC(D) 7-0-4	SR 26 B	Amal-Mana/Sabita	–	0.65*	0.48	0.79**
2012	On-farm (3)	Site 1	Sabita	CSRC(S) 21-2-5-1-1	CSRC(D) 7-0-4	CSRC(D) 13-16-9	0.73*	0.71*	0.51
		Site 2	Sabita	CSRC(D) 12-8-12	Amal-Mana	Geetanjali	0.37	0.44	0.67
		Site 3	CSRC(D) 12-8-12	Sabita	Geetanjali	Amal-Mana	0.74*	0.57	0.49
		Site 4	CSRC(D) 12-8-12	Sabita	Amal-Mana	CSRC(D) 13-16-9	0.81*	0.72*	0.88**
2013	On-farm	Site 1	CSRC(S) 21-2-5-1-1	Swarna-Sub1	Patnai-23	Geetanjali	0.81***	0.56*	0.66**
			Sabita	Amal-Mana	Swarna-Sub1	CSRC (S) 21-2-5-1-1	0.75**	0.15	0.87***

*, **, *** significant at P < 0.05, 0.01 and 0.001, respectively.

^aNumbers in parenthesis in the second column are on-farm trials.