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Table 2 Descriptive statistics of the data

From: Improving farm productivity through the reduction of managerial and technology gaps among farmers in Rwanda

Variable

Local varieties

OPVs

Hybrids

Pooled sample

Mean

Std. dev

Mean

Std. dev

Mean

Std. dev

Mean

Std. dev

Yield

1767.87

219.56

1985.99

230.48

2307.52

266.12

1990.69

293.56

Land

1.17

0.63

1.75

0.85

2.23

0.99

1.69

0.90

Labor

21.39

5.01

23.12

4.11

26.13

4.27

23.24

4.63

Fertilizer

104.67

32.19

125.52

28.19

147.74

35.98

124.38

33.82

Seed

29.47

7.47

31.49

6.47

34.50

8.33

31.54

7.27

Age

44.13

12.03

46.99

10.17

50.46

8.78

46.91

10.61

Gender

0.57

0.49

0.70

0.46

0.82

0.39

0.69

0.46

Education

4.23

1.78

5.77

2.12

8.09

2.85

5.81

2.53

Household size

5.94

1.72

6.83

1.57

7.22

1.42

6.68

1.64

Coop. membership

0.27

0.45

0.55

0.50

0.67

0.47

0.50

0.50

Extension services

26.76

6.97

31.02

7.22

35.81

8.02

30.83

7.88

Land tenure

0.49

0.50

0.48

0.50

0.61

0.49

0.51

0.50

Credit access

0.30

0.46

0.57

0.49

0.52

0.50

0.49

0.50

Off-farm income

0.35

0.48

0.36

0.48

0.46

0.50

0.37

0.48

Slope

0.71

0.45

0.50

0.50

0.21

0.41

0.50

0.50

Livestock ownership

0.62

0.66

1.36

0.97

2.39

1.27

1.37

1.13

No. of observations

91

202

67

360