Table 2.
Differences between farmers who use artificial insemination and those who use traditional bull mating in education level, years of experience in dairying, record keeping practices, and membership to farmer groups. Values are either mean ± SD or proportions
| Variable | Ethiopia | Kenya | Tanzania | Uganda | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | Bull | Significant difference | AI | Bull | Significant difference | AI | Bull | Significant difference | AI | Bull | Significant difference | ||
| Years in formal education | 6.52 ± 5.1 | 4.49 ± 4.6 | < .0001 | 10.16 ± 4.8 | 9.80 ± 4.6 | 0.0089 | 9.425 ± 3.3 | 8.26 ± 3.1 | < .0001 | 10.55 ± 6.4 | 9.48 ± 6.6 | 0.0042 | |
| Years of experience in dairy faming | 2.4 ± 1.52 | 2.19 ± 1.47 | < .0001 | 10.18 ± 2.6 | 9.80 ± 2.6 | 0.0103 | 9.41 ± 1.8 | 8.29 ± 1 | < .0001 | 10.55 ± 1.7 | 9.48 ± 1.7 | 0.09 | |
| Belong to farmers groups | No | 80.12% | 78.21% | 0.2338 | 74.98% | 77.12% | 0.1000 | 82.12% | 74.21% | < .0001 | 86.92% | 87.11% | 0.92 |
| Yes | 19.88% | 21.79% | 25.02% | 22.88% | 17.88% | 25.79% | 13.08% | 12.89% | |||||
| Keeping record | No | 88.68% | 91.46% | 0.0184 | 39.54% | 72.52% | < .0001 | 12.55% | 23.78% | < .0001 | 23.84% | 80.55% | < .0001 |
| Yes | 11.32% | 8.54% | 60.46% | 27.48% | 87.45% | 76.22% | 76.16% | 19.45% | |||||