Table 5.
Knowledge of forage plants based on the characteristics of respondents from five villages
| Characters | Total number of respondents | Average kinds of the forage plants mentioned |  |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | 4844.385, df = 1 | 0.000 | ||
| Male | 165 | 45.153 | ||
| Female | 150 | 37.612 | ||
| Age range | 10789.559, df = 3 | 0.000 | ||
| ≤ 19 | 28 | 15.196 | ||
| 20–39 | 85 | 42.472 | ||
| 40–59 | 127 | 49.826 | ||
| ≥ 60 | 75 | 51.352 | ||
| Education Level | 1758.473, df = 3 | 0.002 | ||
| Illiteracy | 128 | 52.440 | ||
| Primary | 119 | 39.951 | ||
| Middle | 49 | 42.831 | ||
| Higher | 19 | 22.529 | ||
| Occupation | 984.535, df = 6 | 0.013 | ||
| Village heads | 12 | 64.750 | ||
| Farmers | 244 | 43.630 | ||
| businessmen | 5 | 52.600 | ||
| Migrant workers | 19 | 37.488 | ||
| Village doctors | 5 | 45.800 | ||
| Students | 23 | 17.417 | ||
| Other else | 7 | 47.571 |