Adoption Status and Perception of Farmers on Improved Tef Technology Packages: Evidence from East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia

Table 20

Farmers’ perception on improved Tef variety attributes.

Attributes of improved Tef varieties	Distribution of respondents based on the perception of improved Tef varieties (frequency)					Item mean	Std. dev.
	SA	A	ND	D	SD
Grain yield is better	151	57	14	1	1	4.58	0.67
Early mature	5	97	108	14	0	3.41	0.64
Good germination	35	164	22	3	0	4.03	0.55
High disease resistance	2	110	37	54	21	3.08	1.06
High straw quality	11	13	53	64	83	2.12	1.12
High lodging tolerance	36	56	65	63	4	2.74	1.08
Sum of the mean						19.88
Grand mean						3.31

Source: own survey 2020. SA = strongly agree; A = agree; ND = no decision; SD = strongly disagree; D = disagree.