Table 2.
Socioeconomic characteristics of the sample households by adoption status.
| Variable | Definition | Adoption category |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adopters (N = 201) | Non-adopters (N = 1987) | |||
| Outcome variables | ||||
| Productivity | Yield per hectare (kg/ha) | 1988.49 | 967.77 | 0.002 |
| Crop income | Total crop income (GHS/ha) | 1491.38 | 592.66 | 0.000 |
| Total expenditure | Total household expenditure per AEU (GHS/AEU) | 2827.09 | 3367.21 | 0.015 |
| Food expenditure | Total food expenditure per AEU | 1409.45 | 1602.24 | 0.050 |
| Poverty | Poverty status (1 = poor and 0 = non-poor) | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.307 |
| Explanatory variables | ||||
| Gender | Gender of household head (Male = 1; 0 = female) | 0.82 | 0.72 | 0.001 |
| Age | Age of household head (years) | 48.47 | 48.90 | 0.694 |
| Education | Education of household head (1 = literate; 0 = Illiterate) | 0.21 | 0.34 | 0.000 |
| Females in farming | Female household members engaged in farming (number) | 1.66 | 0.94 | 0.000 |
| Males in farming | Male household members engaged in farming (number) | 1.70 | 1.04 | 0.000 |
| Farm size | Total size owned and cultivated by household (hectares) | 4.47 | 2.49 | 0.000 |
| Receive remittance | Receive remittance by household members (1 = yes; 0 = no) | 0.40 | 0.37 | 0.511 |
| TLU | Tropical livestock unit | 2.29 | 1.50 | 0.000 |
| Access to extension office | Access to extension office (1 = yes; 0 = no) | 0.60 | 0.47 | 0.000 |
| Distance to extension services | Distance from household to nearest extension service provider (kilometers) | 4.66 | 6.73 | 0.047 |
| Access to public transport | Public transport in community (1 = yes; 0 = no) | 0.46 | 0.68 | 0.000 |
Note: Poverty measures were calculated based on poverty line of US$1.25/capita/day.
Source: Author's calculations using the GLSS 6 data.