Socio-economic variable | Drip adopters | Non-adopters | ||
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Average | Std deviation | Average | Std deviation | |
Age of respondent | 42.64 | 9.24 | 45.63 | 11.11 |
Educational years | 11.24 | 3.16 | 9.61 | 3.66 |
Family size (Number) | 6.23 | 2.60 | 6.30 | 2.63 |
Land holding (ha) | 1.41 | 1.02 | 1.34 | 0.59 |
Family income (INR) | 504,195.80 | 366,634.77 | 288,270.42 | 139,989.70 |
Experience of farming (years) | 26.67 | 10.36 | 30.06 | 12.27 |
Extension contacts | 0.36 | 0.12 | 0.28 | 0.11 |
Social participation | 0.60 | 0.11 | 0.56 | 0.14 |
Information source use | 0.67 | 0.08 | 0.72 | 0.11 |
Human labour (man days/ha) | 195.17 | 4.98 | 238.58 | 9.02 |
Machine labour (hours/ha) | 19.74 | 2.14 | 20.1 | 2.25 |
Seed (kg/ha) | 6.95 | 1.93 | 8.86 | 1.40 |
FYM (tons/ha) | 5.30 | 1.48 | 4.66 | 1.28 |
Fertilizer (kg/ha) | 647.71 | 159.78 | 503.13 | 66.6 |
No of spray (number/ha) | 7.06 | 1.26 | 8.92 | 1.09 |
Irrigation (hacm/ha) | 58.73 | 10.01 | 81.07 | 11.97 |
Yield (tonnes/ha) | 36.23 | 5.25 | 30.13 | 5.36 |
N | 240 | Â | 240 | Â |