Agriculture

Gendered sweetpotato trait preferences and implications for improved variety acceptance in Uganda

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on
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AbstractThe principal selection objective in crop breeding has for a long time been driven by agronomic gains like yield maximization and climate resilience. Nevertheless, the continued low adoption of new varieties and documented gender technology adoption gap has triggered re‐thinking of this strategy, with end‐user acceptability of released varieties a key strategy in breeding objectives.

Agriculture