Table 8.

Mean ranking^a of farmers’ perceptions on consequences of aflatoxin contamination

Consequence	Ease of identification of the consequence	Severity of the consequence	Need for control of the consequence
Food and feed
Change in taste	1.8 (0.1)b	2.3 (0.1)	1.9 (0.1)
Change in smell	1.7 (0.1)	1.9 (0.0)	2.0 (0.0)
Change in color	1.4 (0.0)	2.2 (0.2)	2.3 (0.2)
Health
Development of liver cancer	2.3 (0.2)	1.9 (0.1)	1.7 (0.0)
Delay of child growth	2.1 (0.1)	1.7 (0.1)	1.5 (0.1)
Lower resistance to diseases of animals	2.3 (0.1)	2.2 (0.0)	2.2 (0.2)
Economic
Difficulty in selling crops	1.7 (0.0)	2.0 (0.1)	1.9 (0.1)
Reduction in marketable price	2.3 (0.1)	2.3 (0.2)	2.2 (0.1)
Kendal's correlation coefficient	0.01	0.03	0.02
Chi‐square	15.3	49.7	33.8
p‐Value	0.03	0.00	0.00
N	127

^aA five‐point scale ranking (1 =  strongly agree, 2 =  fairly agree, 3 =  neutral, 4 =  a little agree, and 5 =  not at all).

^bMean (standard deviation).