City food supplies are a rising concern for food security in an urbanizing context as productivity and yields are expected to increase to meet the growing needs of urban dwellers. Domestic food supplies will not only require increased food production but face a series of constraints related to quality. Some of such constraints are the restrictions on insecticide residues. Eco-friendly nets contribute to improve food production with both reducing insecticide residues and improving product quality. Eco-friendly nets proved to be a viable alternative to harmful and unsustainable insecticide application practices in tropical countries. However, this technology needs to be adapted to the social and economic context in which small-scale farmers evolve. To this end, we investigated a cross-section study of 115 farmers involved in vegetable production and evenly distributed between adopters and non adopters in the Mono and Couffo divisions of Benin. We identified the various factors that govern their preferences. We performed a summary and partial analysis using Likert's scale measurement, W-test of Kendall as well as a multiple regression model. Results show that insecticides were still adopted by 70% of the sample either exclusively or in conjunction with eco-friendly nets. Farmer's preferences expressed for insect control revealed that speed of action and spectrum activity were the first two factors influencing the adoption of a insect control technology. These results were in concordance with preferences expressed by farmers for eco-friendly nets as speed of action and spectrum activity were considered as positive factors. However, costs were considered as negative factors (labor costs, fixed costs and depreciation). The model stated that level of income, knowledge about net use, access to credit and level of education positively correlate with the level of satisfaction for eco-friendly net use in its initial stages of adoption.