| Variables | Pastoral | Agro-pastoral | Overall | P-value |
| Milking equipment |
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| Plastic materials | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Cleaning milk vessels regularly |
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| |
| Yes | 43.3 | 76.67 | 60 | <0.0001 |
| No | 56.67 | 23.33 | 40 | |
| Smoking milk containers |
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|
|
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| Yes | 85 | 88.33 | 86.67 | 0.5 |
| No | 15 | 11.67 | 13.33 | |
| Purpose of smoking containers |
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|
|
|
| Give flavour & aroma | 23.52 | 18.87 | 21.15 | 0.7 |
| Increase shelf life | 19.60 | 15.10 | 17.30 | |
| Both | 56.86 | 66.03 | 61.53 | |
| Plants used for smoking |
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|
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| Sogsog (Acacia ethaica) | 49.02 | 41.51 | 45.19 | 0.3 |
| Kadi (Blanite sgalabra) | 23.53 | 35.85 | 29.81 | |
| Kariir (Solanum Carense) | 27.45 | 22.64 | 25 |