Table 4.

Results for tests exploring correlations between farmers within the former Conflict Zone’s Ethnicities and a suite of agricultural resources and strategies that influence farming outcomes

Agricultural resource or strategy	Sinhalese	Tamil	Moor
Age (years)	49.37 ± 11.38	47.56 ± 12.38	50.52 ± 13.73
Education level (years)**	3.18 ± 1.13	2.83 ± 1.00	2.64 ± 0.89
FO participation*	93.86%	91.73%	77.59%
Proportion of paddy rainfed***	4.22%	30.07%	37.93%
Total paddy acreage*	3.31 ± 2.64	4.73 ± 4.50	4.18 ± 4.22
Receiving drought information***	71%	38%	39%
Presence of an agrowell***	27%	16%	5%
Use of drought-tolerant seeds**	50%	69%	55%
Crop diversity**	0.62 ± 1.13	0.78 ± 1.24	0.17 ± 0.70

*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001 and standard deviations (SD) accompany all reported means