Table 6.

Results of the preference analyses conducted during the dry seasons of 2008–2014.

Year	Trials	Sites	No. of entries	Ranking of most preferred varieties/lines				Correlation between preferences
				1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Male vs. Female	Farmers vs. Researchers	Farmers vs. yield
2008−09	On-station	Site 1	12	Gontra Bidhan-2	Canning 7	Lal Minikit	Satabdi	0.81**	0.85**	0.86*
	On-farm (2)a	Site 1	12	Gontra Bidhan-2	Canning 7	Satabdi	Lalat	0.73**	0.86**	0.69*
		Site 2	12	Gontra Bidhan-2	Canning 7	Satabdi	Khitish	0.93**	0.79**	0.66*
2009−10	On-station	Site 1	8	Gontra Bidhan-2	Annada	Rasi	Boby	0.81**	0.85***	0.86*
	On-farm (2)	Site 1	8	Gontra Bidhan-2	Boby	Rasi	Canning 7	0.93**	0.08	0.72**
		Site 2	8	Canning 7	Annada	Rasi	Boby	0.97**	0.86**	0.16
2011−12	On-station	Site 1	8	Boby	Bidhan-2	Lal Minikit	Annada	0.91*	0.82*	0.89*
	On-farm (3)	Site 1	8	Lal Minikit	Annada	Gontra Bidhan-2	Boby	0.83	0.51	0.66
		Site 2	8	Gontra Bidhan-2	Boby	Annada	Lal Minikit	0.83	0.64	0.70
		Site 3	8	Gontra Bidhan-2	Annada	Lal Minikit	Satabdi	0.93*	0.82	0.73
2012−13	On-farm (3)	Site 1	10	Gontra Bidhan-2	Boby	Annada	Parijat/Super Sankar	0.46	0.39	0.80**
		Site 2	10	Super Sankar	Gontra Bidhan-2	Boby	N Sankar	0.78**	0.52	0.84**
		Site 3	10	Boby	Gontra Bidhan-2	Super Sankar	Annada	0.94**	0.90***	0.32
2013−14	On-farm (3)	Site 1	10	Lal Minikit	Lalat	Satabdi	Boby	0.83**	0.95**	0.65*
		Site 2	10	Lal Minikit	Lalat	Annada/IR 64 Saltol	–	0.20	0.95**	0.68*
		Site 3	10	Lal Minikit	Lalat/IR 64 Saltol	Boby	–	0.83**	0.92**	0.65*

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

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