Table 3.

Test of difference.

Variable	Adoption n = 232		Non-Adoption n = 232		Pooled Sample n = 464		T-test
	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	Diff.	P-Value
Age	22.961	1.122	31.155	0.898	23.058	1.020	−8.194**	0.040
Male	1.099	0.299	1.302	0.460	1.200	0.401	−0.203***	0.000
Household	2.685	1.159	2.638	0.877	2.662	1.027	0.047	0.619
Married	1.961	0.640	2.108	0.685	2.034	0.666	−0.147**	0.018
Education	1.871	1.032	1.504	0.800	1.688	0.941	0.366***	0.000
Expenditure	21.897	30.304	23.884	32.372	22.890	31.289	−1.987	0.495
Primary Occ.	1.388	0.488	1.345	0.476	1.366	0.482	0.043	0.336
Farming Exp.	9.922	0.951	7.913	0.814	6.918	0.887	2.010	0.943
Farm system	1.159	0.367	1.056	0.230	1.108	0.310	0.103***	0.000
Extension	1.862	0.346	1.948	0.222	1.905	0.293	−0.086***	0.002
Credit Acc.	1.948	0.222	1.966	0.183	1.957	0.203	0.017	0.362

Legend: ***, ** and * represent 0.01, 0.05 and 0.1 significant levels respectively.