Table 3.

Average hybrid maize seed buying prices, selling prices and margins.

	Overall	Seed company	Local distributor	t value/Chi-square	p-value
Share of seed supply (%)		27.0	73.0
Average buying price ($/kg)	2.06 (0.33)	1.86 (0.30)	2.12 (0.32)	−8.769	<0.001
Average selling price ($/kg)	2.23 (0.33)	2.07 (0.32)	2.27 (0.32)	−6.616	<0.001
Average margins ($/kg)	0.17 (0.11)	0.21 (0.11)	0.16 (0.11)	4.482	<0.001
Reliability of supply (%)				15.505	<0.001
Very reliable	70.5	82.1	66.2
Averagely reliable	23.9	15.0	27.2
Not reliable	5.6	2.9	6.6

Standard deviation in parentheses.