Table 7.

Correlation between canonical axes and variables.

Variables	Axe 1	Axe 2	Axe 3
Age	0.026	0.084	0.186
Animal traction	− 0.897	0.390	− 0.004
Education	0.135	0.149	− 0.062
Experience	− 0.128	0.071	0.201
Female-headed households	0.094	− 0.081	0.122
Farmers output of rice	0.006	0.431	− 0.257
Family workforce	− 0.163	− 0.252	0.063
Government extensions	0.189	0.557	0.121
Hired farm labour	0.442	0.510	− 0.061
Household size	− 0.238	0.086	0.175
International institutes	− 0.246	0.134	0.180
Irrigation	− 0.176	0.369	− 0.238
Land ownership	0.075	− 0.019	0.093
Size of land under rice cultivation	0.182	0.402	− 0.284
Livestock ownership	− 0.802	0.348	0.047
Membership of farmers association	0.240	0.641	0.085
Male-headed households	− 0.094	0.081	− 0.122
Machinery ownership	− 0.813	0.359	0.159
Non-governmental organizations	0.211	0.318	− 0.047
Off-farm income	0.270	0.318	− 0.081
Off-season rice	− 0.109	0.399	− 0.309
Crop diversification	0.031	0.281	0.237
Rice as main crop	0.368	0.259	− 0.337
Total farm size	− 0.163	0.252	0.142
Training in rice farming	0.257	0.720	0.303
Total workforce	0.142	0.319	− 0.239
Use of fertilizers	0.104	0.639	0.403
Adoption of new rice variety	0.329	0.352	0.152
Use of pesticides	0.045	0.109	0.054