Variable | Nonparticipants (n = 259) | Participants (n = 51) | t-value | p-value | |
Age | 43.54 | 43.49 | 0.03 | 0.9792 | |
Education | 7.06 | 7.51 | −0.83 | 0.4083 | |
Experience | 14.26 | 11.63 | 1.81 | 0.0739* | |
Household composition | 6.69 | 5.69 | 2.92 | 0.0044*** | |
Age below 18 | 3.20 | 2.82 | 1.35 | 0.1798 | |
Age 18 to 50 | 3.06 | 2.53 | 2.74 | 0.0076*** | |
Age 50 and older | 0.46 | 0.35 | 0.97 | 0.3376 | |
Land leased | 0.58 | 0.80 | −3.45 | 0.0009*** | |
Extension visit | 0.90 | 2.18 | −2.10 | 0.0080*** | |
Meeting | 0.38 | 0.86 | −2.10 | 0.0401** | |
Transport ownership | 0.07 | 0.12 | −1.08 | 0.0000*** | |
Farm equipment | 0.09 | 0.10 | −0.20 | 0.8402 | |
Livestock | 0.93 | 0.94 | −0.19 | 0.8531 | |
Hybrid seed | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.13 | 0.8934 | |
Off-farm income | 0.14 | 0.29 | −2.34 | 0.0224** | |
Land size used | 4.60 | 7.75 | −2.36 | 0.0220** | |
Output per acre | 686.84 | 795.91 | −270 | 0.0088*** | |
Seed per acre | 80.73 | 75.81 | 2.28 | 0.0250** | |
Fertilizer Lts/acre | 24.63 | 20.21 | 1.14 | 0.2593 | |
Herbicides Lts/acre | 0.69 | 0.73 | −0.57 | 0.5688 | |
Insecticides Lts/acre | 0.55 | 0.64 | −1.32 | 0.1921 | |
Pesticides Lts/acre | 0.37 | 0.42 | −0.75 | 0.4573 | |
TE scores | 0.78 | 0.85 | −4.77 | 0.0000*** | |
AE scores | 0.79 | 0.85 | −4.09 | 0.0001*** |