Farmer Willingness to Pay for Qualiity Cowpea Seeds, Burkina Faso 2017 Survey

Increasingly erratic weather/climatic conditions and the corresponding effects on crop yields are accentuating the need for farmers to plant good quality seeds of improved varieties. However, for self-pollinated crops like cowpeas (Vigna ungiculata), for which “seed” is highly competitive with “grain” when used as planting material, the demand for seeds of good quality is often negatively affected by several factors, including, the price of quality seeds and the common practice of “recycling” grains as seed. This dataset include farmer survey data on their willingness to pay (WTP) for three types of seed products (Certified, Quality Declared, and own-saved/recycled) in Burkina Faso using the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) bidding mechanism.The objective of this survey and the BDM experiment was to understand i) how the perceived differential performance of different types of seeds translate into farmers' WTP for these seeds; and ii) the factors which determine the WTP for each type of “seed” product. Dataset also includes data collected from farmers to understand their household and farm characteristics and prior experience with growing different types of cowpea seeds. Dataset is recorded in French language.