In general, there appears to be heterogeneity in preferences for
crop varieties, especially across large and smallholder farmers and
farmers with high and low values of livestock. Larger farm households
and households with a high value of livestock gave more weight to
productivity than to environmental and yield stability attributes than
did smallholders and households with a low value of livestock. This
result is very intuitive, in that larger farm households are less riskaverse
and are ready to adopt crop varieties that are more productive
but less resilient and less stable in terms of yield. Households with a
higher value of livestock also prefer more productive crop genetic
varieties. Their livestock asset is giving them the leverage to make
riskier production decisions in terms of choice of crop varieties.