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Table 1 Current farmersproduction practices/techniques for sweet potato in the study areas

From: Gender differences in access and use of selected productive resources among sweet potato farmers in Uganda

Characteristic

Male-headed households (% yes)

Female-headed households (% yes)

χ 2

DF

P value

Intercrop sweet potato

41.2

42.2

0.0001

1

0.992

Use of fertilizers

5.8

7.5

0.241

1

0.623

Practice crop rotation

99.3

92.3

7.218

1

0.007

Use of hired labor

29.5

56.6

3.476

1

0.062

Use of family labor

99.3

100.0

0.389

1

0.533

Use of variety mixtures in sweet potato

89.9

81.1

0.301

1

0.584

Irrigate sweet potato

10.0

0.0

0.329

1

0.567