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