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| Table 1. Farmer and farm characteristics of surveyed hybrid and OPV growers. |
Category |
Hybrid growers |
OPV growers |
Area under eggplant(hectares) |
0.48(0.5)** |
0.28(0.21) |
Total land area owned (hectares) |
4.3(0.33)* |
3.6(2.6) |
Family size (number) |
7.3(5) |
6.6(3.4) |
Age of the family head (years) |
44.4(11.6)** |
48.5(12.8) |
Number of years of schooling |
7.7(4.4) |
7.2(4.8) |
Access to banks(1– if good access, 0 otherwise) |
0.87(0.34)** |
0.76(.43) |
Market size (’000) |
2237(4138)** |
7.7(9) |
Number of irrigations per season |
28.7(25)** |
17.1(11.6) |
District 1(1 if Jalgaon, 0 otherwise) |
0.09(0.29)** |
0.54(0.50) |
District 2(1 if Nagpur, 0 otherwise) |
0.28(0.45) |
0.28(0.45) |
District 3(1 if Ahmad Nagar, 0 otherwise) |
0.4(0.5)** |
0 |
District 4(1 if Nanded, 0 otherwise) |
0.24(0.43) |
0.18(0.39) |
Number of observations |
156 |
93 |
Standard deviations are given in the parentheses. Market size indicates the population size of the market in which eggplant is sold. The symbols **,* denote that the mean values are statistically different between the two groups at 5, and 15% levels respectively. |
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