Determinants of Smallholder Farmers’ Participation in Improved Sheep Production: The Case of Doyogena District, Kembata Tembaro Zone, Southern Ethiopia
Table 6
Descriptive statistics’ results of continuous explanatory variables.
Variable
Participants
Nonparticipants
value
T value
Mean
Stand. Dev
Mean
Stand. Dev.
Age in year (AGE cont)
44.53
6.775
61.27
4.564
0.002
17.642
Educational status (EDU)
5.000
1.568
2.000
1.027
0.013
17.407
Distance from Kebele center (DFKC)
1.180
0.478
2.91
0.351
0.014
24.927
Land size (LAND cont)
1.120
0.448
0.750
0.264
0.001
6.179
Farm income (FI)
9627.45
2999.739
6105.38
2079.839
0.004
8.272
Off-farm income (NFI)
2196.08
626.725
1066.77
466.679
0.001
12.261
Household labor in ME (HHLME)
4.980
1.295
2.36
0.602
0.0001
16.641
Distance from near market center to their home (DFNMC)
4.450
1.487
6.000
1.707
0.328
5.444NS
Frequency of development agents contact (FDC)
37.290
2.773
14.77
6.478
0.0001
23.639
Source: computed from own survey data, 2018; ,, NS shows significance level at 1%, 5%, not significant, respectively.
