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Information provision and groundnut varietal traits preferences of farmers: Evidence from randomized experiments in Nigeria and Tanzania

Groundnut is among the most important food, fodder and cash crops for smallholder farming households in Nigeria and Tanzania. Despite the availability of improved groundnut varieties with superior agronomic traits, adoption rates and varietal turnover remain low. A plausible reason is that past variety development and promotion have historically prioritized agronomic traits such as pod yield, maturity, disease resistance, etc., that may not fully reflect the preferences of farmers without taking into account end-user (e.g., processor, consumer) requirements for quality traits, such as aflatoxi…