As a result of discussions with producers and experts as well as the pre-test we
conducted three months prior to the survey, six attributes were considered in our study.
These are price, reduced health risk, farm environmental quality, eating quality,
certification, and fair trade. We set the status quo product to be non-organic rice which
respondents purchase regularly. The descriptions of the attributes and their levels are
summarized in Table 1. In our estimation, we regress the following equation and estimate
willingness to pay (WTP) for each attribute: