Determinants Influencing the Adoption of Rice Intensification System among Smallholders in Mwea Irrigation Scheme, Kenya

Table 3

Descriptive analysis for the adopters and nonadopters of SRI.

Variable	Adopters	Nonadopters	Pooled mean	t/chi value
	n = 259	n = 105	n = 364
Age (mean age)	42	41	41	52.40
Gender
Male (%)	22.39	31.43	38.1	3.25
Female (%)	77.61	68.57	73.09
Education level (%)
Primary	56.33	43.67	43.41	159.60
Secondary	79.17	20.83	46.15
Postsecondary	97.37	2.63	10.44
Household size	4.12	5.2	5.0	48.08
Farm size (Ha)	1.5	2.1	1.8	15.85
Monthly income (KES)	40374.5200	33761.9000	37,068.21	47.70
Years in paddy farming	6.2	8.1	7.1	27.08
Access to extension services				33.21
	92.66	69.52	81.09
	7.34	30.48	18.91
Casual work	88.42	91.43
Livestock keeping	3.86	7.57	89.93	11.36
Others	7.72	1.0	5.72
Credit access	33.98	91.43	62.705	98.65
	66.02	8.57	37.29
Distance to canal	5.4788	4.1714	4.83	3.59

Source: authors’ calculations, 2020. Note: denotes significance at 1%.