Table 1.

List of cultivated, preferred and non‐preferred yam varieties for pounded yam and order of ranking for making good quality pounded yam

	List of cultivated varieties*	List of preferred varieties for good quality pounded yam	Order of ranking for making good quality pounded yam				List of non‐preferred varieties for good quality pounded yam
			Female		Male
			Variety	Rank	Variety	Rank
South‐west	Amula, Aro, Awana, Efuru. Gbongi, Efuru, Lasinrin. Odo, Gambari Ewura eweseni, Totoro, Keso, Tankalubo, Gbongi Kamilu, Ofegi, Aga, Atoja	Amula, Aro, Awana, Efuru. Gbongi, Efuru, Lasinrin. Odo, Gambari	Lasinrin Awana Gbongi, Aro Efuru, Odo, Amula	1 2 3 4	Lasinrin Gbongi	1 2	Ewura eweseni, Totoro, Keso, Tankalubo, Gbongi Kamilu, Ofegi, Aga, Atoja
South‐east	Oko, Igum(Nwaopoko), Obiaoturugo, Iboki Mvula, ojir, onicha, ifara, okpabe, Abi Orunte Ji igwe, Abana, obela, amage	Igum, Abi, onisha obiaoturugo, Orunte, Izzamgbo	Igum Abi Obiaoturugo Onicha Orunte	1 2 3 4 5	Igum Abi	1 2	Oko, mvulaokpabe, iboki Abana, igweobela, ifaraamage

^*Figures in italics are the ranks in order of preference of varieties for making pounded yam based on simple ranking method where 1 represents the most preferred variety and 5 represent least preferred variety for good quality pounded yam.