Table 3.
Agro-chemical use statistics from macro and LSMS-ISA data.
| Country | Literature reviewa |
LSMS-ISAb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % hh using | Source | % of cultivating hh using | By type |
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| Pesticide | Herbicide | Fungicide | ||||
| Ethiopia | 21 | Taffesse (2008) | 30.5 | 8.4 | 27.2 | 3.5 |
| Malawi | 3 | Zezza et al. (2007) | 3.0 | – | – | – |
| Niger | – | – | 7.8 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 5.5 |
| Nigeria | 10.5 | Akramov (2009) | 33.0 | 18.2 | 21.9 | – |
| Tanzania | – | – | 12.5 | – | – | – |
| Uganda | 3 | Okoboi (2010) | 10.7 | – | – | – |
| Average | 16.3 | – | – | – | ||
Note: FAOSTAT data on agro-chemical use includes application rates, which are not as reliably generated using the LSMS-ISA data. For that reason, we exclude those statistics from this table. The “average” row includes simple (unweighted) averages across the statistics reported at the country level. The breakdown by type of agro-chemical in the LSMS-ISA statistics is only included for those countries with full statistics for pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides.
a
Review of literature.
b
Authors’ calculations using the Living Standards Measurement Study Integrated Surveys on Agriculture: Ethiopia 2011/12, Malawi 2010/11, Niger 2011/12, Nigeria 2010/11, Tanzania 2010/11, Uganda 2010/11.