Provision of information | Before any trial, farmers would want a chance to speak with those who developed the crops to enable them to learn more and to ask questions regarding GM crop production |
 | All respondents believed they would be given enough information to make an informed, autonomous decision before any trial was undertaken, regardless of the body or organisation conducting the trial. |
Previous exposure | Respondents were more receptive to becoming involved in a trial when they had had previous contact with scientists or developmental organisations across a number of disciplines, not solely agriculture. |
 | Where respondents had had little or no contact with such initiatives, their receptivity to trialling GM crop varieties was markedly reduced. |
Type of farming practice | All the farmers said that undertaking a trial using a new crop variety would mean sacrificing some land under current cultivation. All the farmers said that they currently farmed the maximum acreage possible given the labour available. |
 | Where farmers were undertaking subsistence farming, producing just enough crops to provide adequate food, they were more reluctant to take the risk of sacrificing land to test a new crop variety because of the potential consequences of reduced yield if the trial was unsuccessful. |
 | Those farmers who produced enough crops to allow surplus to be traded felt that potential benefits of testing a new GM crop variety outweighed the potential risk of reduced overall crop production. |
Involvement of scientists in the trial process | In all cases farmers preferred that scientists should be involved in all stages of a trial, from planting to harvesting, processing and tasting. |
Incentives | All farmers would trial a new GM crop variety if they were paid: their concern about land sacrifice associated with a trial would be countered by financial incentives. |
 | Respondents would also be less concerned about close involvement of scientists in the trial process if given financial incentives. |
 | Where farmers had excess land which was fallow, they would have no concerns in allowing scientists to cultivate their spare land in order to test a new GM crop variety in exchange for the final crop products. |