Table 3.
Labor use by gender in groundnut production.
| Number of workers used annually per activity Mean (Std. Dev) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local variety |
Improved |
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| Women | Men | Pooled sample | Women | Men | Pooled sample | |
| Activity | Family labor |
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| Bush clearing | 4.33 (2.51) | 4.14 (3.12) | 4.25 (2.76) | 5.57 (6.04) | 4.2 (2.84) | 4.93 (4.82) |
| Seedbed preparation | 8.63 (8.15) | 7.15 (5.30) | 8.04 (7.18) | 6.16 (6.44) | 6.86 (6.91) | 6.47 (6.61) |
| Groundnut planting | 5.56 (3.54) | 5.7 (5.15) | 5.62 (4.21) | 5.36 (3.74) | 6.21 (5.83) | 5.744.76 |
| Weeding | 4.63 (2.54) | 5.94 (3.80) | 5.03 (3.01) | 5.94 (4.42) | 6.38 (7.46) | 6.08 (5.45) |
| Groundnut harvesting | 6.42a (6.16) | 4.41 (4.55) | 5.65 (5.66) | 6.22 (6.37) | 5.17 (5.60) | 5.76 (5.99) |
| Hired labor |
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| Bush clearing | 6.96 (9.52) | 5.92 (12.06) | 6.46 (10.72) | 4.13 (2.87) | 3.38 (2.22) | 3.79 (2.58) |
| Seedbed preparation | 8.21 (13.81) | 10.98 (14.22) | 9.41 (13.98) | 7.59 (5.96) | 7.92 (5.94) | 7.75 (5.89) |
| Planting | 6.64 (6.78) | 8.14 (9.40) | 7.43 (8.25) | 5.4 (4.86) | 6.83 (4.90) | 6.18 (4.88) |
| Weeding | 10.15 (9.80) | 10.14 (8.12) | 10.14 (9.04) | 6.7b (3.37) | 10.91 (7.28) | 8.48 (5.72) |
| Harvesting | 7.07 (8.73) | 6.75 (7.52) | 6.92 (8.03) | 4.11 (2.67) | 3.13 (2.03) | 3.65 (2.37) |
Significance: a10%, b1%.