Farmers' survey: niche market development for neglected and underutlized (NUS) products in Nepal.

Data collected in November 2012 in collaboration with LI-BIRD. The sample includes 180 farmers from three villages (Lekhnat, Pumdibhumdi and Arba) in the peri-urban area of Pokhara, Nepal. The purpose of the survey is to evaluate the cost and benefits of a niche market development for NUS products as a means of agricultural biodiversity conservation instrument. To this end, data on income, family size, area of yielding, production and processing costs, quantity sold and bottlenecks in selling have been collected for Finger millet, Taro, Horse gram and Anadi rice products and niche products. The dat aset is organized as follows: Household's general information, Finger millet data, Anadi rice data, Taro data and Horse gram data. Stratified random sampling selecting from those farmers that yield at least two of the mentioned NUS. Sample intensity of the 30% for each village. The questionnaires has been personally administered by trained interviewers from LI-BIRD. Each interviews tookes around half an hour with separate section for each NUS crop yielded. The questions are both open or close ended with quantitative replies.

本数据集于2012年11月与LI-BIRD合作采集完成。样本覆盖尼泊尔博克拉城郊三个村庄（莱克纳特Lekhnat、蓬迪布姆迪Pumdibhumdi与阿尔巴Arba）的180名农户。本次调研旨在评估针对被忽视且未充分利用作物（Neglected and Underutilized Species，下称NUS）产品开发利基市场的成本与收益，以此作为农业生物多样性保护的实施手段。为此，本数据集采集了龙爪稷（Finger millet）、芋（Taro）、马豆（Horse gram）、阿纳迪稻米（Anadi rice）及其利基产品的相关数据，涵盖收入、家庭规模、种植面积、生产与加工成本、销售量及销售瓶颈等维度。本数据集结构如下：农户基本信息模块、龙爪稷数据模块、阿纳迪稻米数据模块、芋数据模块以及马豆数据模块。本次抽样采用分层随机抽样方法，抽样对象为至少种植两种上述NUS作物的农户，每个村庄的抽样强度为30%。问卷由LI-BIRD培训的专职访调员当面完成访谈，每份访谈耗时约半小时，针对农户种植的每种NUS作物设置独立访谈模块。问卷题型涵盖开放式与封闭式两类，均要求受访者提供量化回复。