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Figure 1. Sites for countryside diagnostic survey on banana-based farming systems in Uganda.
done by advising the farmer that this exercise was part of a countrywide survey and that
farmers in other regions had defined other attributes that they considered important in
cultivar selection. To avoid bias, it was explained that these criteria were not necessarily
important at all sites and we wished to know if the farmer considered these attributes
relevant in determining what she/he grew. Attributes put forth by the research team and
recognised by the farmer as important were marked with an asterisk.
The cultivars were listed across the top of the page forming a criteria x cultivar
matrix. The farmer then scored the different cultivars for each attribute by allocation of
beans. Ordinarily, the farmer started with the cultivar that received the highest score.
For example, if bunch size was being scored, the farmer would place a relatively large
number of beans in the petri dish next to the name of the cultivar with the largest
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