Variable | Adopters | Non Adopters | Total | Ho: diff = 0 | ||||
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | t-value | P-value | |
Age of house head | 38.67 | 10.21 | 34.44 | 6.625 | 38.12 | 9.908 | −3.43 | 0.001 |
Farming experience | 18.37 | 9.81 | 17.87 | 6.109 | 18.31 | 9.414 | −0.43 | 0.666 |
Man equivalent | 4.17 | 1.294 | 3.26 | 0. 819 | 4.05 | 1.278 | −5.89 | 0.000 |
Farm size (Timad) | 4.82 | 2.762 | 2.85 | 1.631 | 4.560 | 2.723 | −6.31 | 0.000 |
Farm size with row plantation (Timad) | 2.33 | 1.532 | 0.00 | 0.000 | 2.03 | 1.631 | −24.58 | 0.000 |
Proportion of farm with row plantation (Timad) | 0.56 | 0.313 | 0.00 | 0.000 | 0.48 | 0.347 | −28.68 | 0.000 |
Number of plots | 1.36 | 0.663 | 1.10 | 0.307 | 1.33 | 0.634 | −4.08 | 0.000 |
Tropical Livestock Unit | 5.67 | 5.633 | 2.96 | 2.326 | 5.32 | 5.396 | −5.31 | 0.000 |
Number of oxen | 1.54 | 2.059 | 0.69 | 0.800 | 1.43 | 1.962 | −4.69 | 0.000 |
Value of Communication Equipment (Birr) | 190.81 | 334.049 | 28.21 | 102.466 | 169.67 | 318.384 | −6.16 | 0.000 |
Annual off−farm income | 2614.1 | 5242.9 | 1519.0 | 2927.3 | 2471.7 | 5012.7 | −1.921 | 0.058 |
No of DA contacts/annum | 24.83 | 17.611 | 16.46 | 20.577 | 23.74 | 18.206 | −2.411 | 0.020 |
Distance to DA (Hours) | 0.69 | 0.058 | 0.803 | 0.141 | 0.707 | 0.054 | 0.719 | 0.475 |
Distance to market (Hours) | 0.93 | 0.596 | 1.13 | 0.644 | 0.95 | 0.606 | 1.862 | 0.0687 |
No of information sources | 2.19 | 1.216 | 1.13 | 1.031 | 2.053 | 0.072 | −5.863 | 0.000 |
Labor per Land (Days) | 22.30 | 17.804 | 34.48 | 19.884 | 23.88 | 18.512 | 3.62 | 0.001 |