Table 7.
Farmers’ most preferred varieties and breeding lines in trialsa conducted during the wet and dry seasons of 2008 − 2014, in the coastal regions of the Indian Sundarbans.
| Most preferred varieties/lines | Wet season |
Most preferred varieties/lines | Dry season |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency of preferences (no.)b |
Frequency of preferences (no.) |
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| 1st rank | 2nd rank | 3rd rank | 4th rank | 1st rank | 2nd rank | 3rd rank | 4th rank | ||
| Amal-Mana | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | Gontra Bidhan-2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | – |
| SR 26B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Boby | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| CSRC(S) 21-2-5-1-1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | Lal Minikit | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| Geetanjali | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | Super Sankar | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| CSRC(D) 7-0-4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Canning 7 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Sabita | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Annada | – | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| CSRC(D) 12-8-12 | 2 | 1 | Lalat | – | 3 | 1 | |||
| Swarna-Sub1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | IR64 Saltol | – | 1 | 1 | |
| Patnai-23 | – | – | 1 | – | Satabdi | – | – | 3 | 2 |
| Sumati | – | – | – | 2 | Rasi | – | – | 3 | – |
| CSRC(D) 13-16-9 | – | – | – | 2 | Khitish | – | – | – | 1 |
| Parijat | – | – | – | 1 | |||||
| N Sankar | – | – | – | 1 | |||||
a
Trial details presented in Table 1.
b
Frequency of preferences indicates the number of times a particular variety was ranked as 1st to 4th.