Table II. Plot characteristics and...

Table II.

Plot characteristics and climate variables

		Non-adopters		Adopters		Mean
Variables	Description	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Difference
Plot characteristics
PLOTDIST	Plot distance from home in minutes	13.2	16.65	15.41	19.34	−2.16***
SLOPE	Slope of the plot
	1 = flat	0.58		0.61		−0.030**
	2 = medium	0.77		0.69		0.072***
	3 = steep	0.08		0.10		−0.017
FERTILITY	Fertility of the plot
	1 = highly fertile	1.00		1.17		−0.166**
	2 = medium fertility	1.07		0.98		0.086***
	3 = infertile	0.12		0.11		0.0127
SHOCK^a	Index of shocks the household faced (Numbers)	0.102	0.06	0.102	0.04	000
MEDIA	1 = if the household received media information about CD	0.26		0.19		0.07***
INPUTMAR	Walking distance in minutes	10.47	1.81	10.41	1.92	0.060
ORGANIC	manure used in KG	0.26	0.44	0.23	0.42	0.032***
PESTICIDE	pesticide used in lt	0.1	0.69	0.12	0.65	−0.02
Climate variables
TEMP 0013	Average annual temperature (⁰C) 2000-2013	20.02	2.55	19.92	2.58	0.102*
RAIN0013	Average growing season rainfall 2000-2013 (mm)	684	239	707	231	−23.5***
CV TEMP	Coefficient of variation for annual temperature 2000-2013 (mm)	0.1037	0.025	0.101	0.0004	0.0017**
CV RF	Coefficient of variation for average growing season rainfall 2000-2013 (mm)	0.557	0.247	0.534	0.234	0.022***

		Non-adopters		Adopters		Mean
Variables	Description	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Difference
Plot characteristics
PLOTDIST	Plot distance from home in minutes	13.2	16.65	15.41	19.34	−2.16***
SLOPE	Slope of the plot
	1 = flat	0.58		0.61		−0.030**
	2 = medium	0.77		0.69		0.072***
	3 = steep	0.08		0.10		−0.017
FERTILITY	Fertility of the plot
	1 = highly fertile	1.00		1.17		−0.166**
	2 = medium fertility	1.07		0.98		0.086***
	3 = infertile	0.12		0.11		0.0127
SHOCK^a	Index of shocks the household faced (Numbers)	0.102	0.06	0.102	0.04	000
MEDIA	1 = if the household received media information about CD	0.26		0.19		0.07***
INPUTMAR	Walking distance in minutes	10.47	1.81	10.41	1.92	0.060
ORGANIC	manure used in KG	0.26	0.44	0.23	0.42	0.032***
PESTICIDE	pesticide used in lt	0.1	0.69	0.12	0.65	−0.02
Climate variables
TEMP 0013	Average annual temperature (⁰C) 2000-2013	20.02	2.55	19.92	2.58	0.102*
RAIN0013	Average growing season rainfall 2000-2013 (mm)	684	239	707	231	−23.5***
CV TEMP	Coefficient of variation for annual temperature 2000-2013 (mm)	0.1037	0.025	0.101	0.0004	0.0017**
CV RF	Coefficient of variation for average growing season rainfall 2000-2013 (mm)	0.557	0.247	0.534	0.234	0.022***

Notes:

^aLandslide, hailstorms, and other shock specified by the respondent. More shocks on a plot means the shock index will increase approaching 1 as the number of shocks approaches 7; ***significant at 1% level; **significant at 5% level; *significant at 10% level

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