Bangladeshi Farmer Preferences for Salt-Tolerant Rice Varieties from a Choice Experiment

Bangladesh's coastal regions are the focus of this dataset, which contains attributes and levels used in a discrete choice experiment. The data was created by Jaba Rani Sarker and last updated on 2026-04-29. It investigates smallholder farmers' preferences for adopting climate-resilient rice varieties in response to salinity intrusion.

Use Cases

• Estimating willingness to pay for agricultural traits based on discrete choice experiment attributes.
• Segmenting farmer populations for policy targeting based on preferences for yield, profitability, and labor.
• Analyzing the influence of contextual and socio-economic factors on technology adoption choices.

Strengths

• Data is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse with attribution.
• The underlying study employed Random Parameter Logit and Latent Class Models, suggesting a structured analytical foundation.
• Findings segment farmers into three distinct classes with reported proportions (46.5%, 33.2%, 20.3%).

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data likely originates from a discrete choice experiment survey administered to farmers.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 17:57:30; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Coastal regions of Bangladesh