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Identifying appropriate policy interventions to improve rice productivity is crucial to improvingn food security and incomes. This study used data from 73 rice farmers randomly selected from an irrigated scheme and employed Kendall's Coefficient of Concordance and multivariate regression techniques to explore production constraints, farmers' subjective varietal traits preferences and factors affecting adoption of improved rice varieties. Results showed capital acquisition, drudgery in land preparation, and weed infestation were among the constraints to rice production. Also, farmers selected rice varieties based on taste, ease of cooking, milling recovery, swelling ability and aroma. Empirical results revealed that farm size, land tenure, ease of cooking, milling recovery and percentage broken affected the selection of improved rice varieties. We suggest that rice varietal development programmes should consider grain traits preferred by end users in breeding activities. Also, government and local authorities should guarantee land tenure security across rice production areas to encourage the adoption of improved varieties.
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