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

Table 6

Land area covered by the improved Tef varieties.

Adoption category of improved variety	Freq.	%	Mean total Tef land area (ha)	Mean improved Tef land area (ha)	Std. dev.	F-test
Nonadopters	48	21.43	0.32	—	—	343.43^∗∗∗
Low adopters	11	4.91	0.38	0.14	0.04
Medium adopters	49	21.88	0.50	0.27	0.07
High adopters	116	51.79	0.52	0.47	0.11
Total	224	100.00	0.47	0.31	0.20

Source: own survey data, 2020. ^∗∗∗, ^∗∗∗, ^∗∗∗, and ns .