Table 2.

Characteristics of the agro-dealers and farmers participating in the study.

Agro-dealers		Farmers
N	80	N	466
Gender (%)		Gender (%)
Male	56.2	Male	66.3
Female	43.8	Female	33.7
Age in years	40.0 (12.3)	Age in years	48.3 (15.6)
Education level (%)		Education level (%)
Higher than secondary	57.5	Higher than secondary	17.8
Secondary	32.5	Secondary	23.0
Lower than secondary	10.0	Lower than secondary	59.2
Position (%)		Farming experience in years	18.0 (14.6)
Owner	68.8	Size of maize field in acres	2.0 (2.7)
Manager	18.8	Part of maize harvest sold (%)	38.7
Employee	12.4
Years in business	8.3 (6.7)
Importance of maize in revenue (%)
Most important	10.0
In top 3	51.3
Not in top 3	48.7

Standard deviation in parantheses