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Table 4 Difference between adopters and non-adopters

From: Genebanks and market participation: evidence from groundnut farmers in Malawi

Variable

Pooled sample

Improved variety

Mean difference

Adopters

Non-adopters

Dependent variables

 Market participation (yes = 1)

0.22 (0.42)

0.43 (0.03)

0.05 (0.01)

0.39***

 Quantity of groundnuts sold (kg)

51.69 (181.24)

100.77 (16.43)

12.65 (7.26)

88.11***

Key explanatory variable

 Relative provenance (%)

38.26 (46.04)

86.38 (1.77)

0.00 (0.00)

86.38***

 Area under adoption (hectares)

0.38 (0.74)

0.70 (0.06)

0.13 (0.02)

0.58***

Covariates

 Age of the household head (years)

46.33 (16.04)

45.84 (1.04)

46.72 (1.08)

− 0.87

 Educational level of the household head (years)

4.25 (3.96)

4.39 (0.26)

4.14 (0.26)

0.25***

 Household head is male (%)

0.79 (0.40)

0.82 (0.02)

0.77 (0.02)

0.05*

 Household size (number)

5.40 (2.14)

5.52 (0.14)

5.30 (0.14)

0.21

 Experience in groundnut cultivation (years)

7.75 (11.49)

7.65 (0.81)

7.81 (0.73)

− 0.16

 Distance to market (km)

11.54 (8.12)

11.85 (0.56)

11.29 (0.53)

0.55

 Farm size (hectares)

1.04 (1.18)

1.06 (0.08)

1.02 (0.07)

0.04

 Observations

447

198

249

447

  1. For all the panel rounds, observations are pooled. Mean values are presented for all variables with their standard deviations in parentheses. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1