Impact of Irrigation Ecology on Rice Production Efficiency in Ghana

Table 3

Production ecology effect of means of farm household’s characteristics.

Farm household	Irrigation	Rain fed	Mean	Z-
Characteristics	(n=133)	(n=217)	Difference	statistic
	Mean	Mean
Age of household head	44.71	44.36	0.34	0.28
Farmer experience in years	22.50	24.42	-1.92	-1.73
Wealth of farm household	8385.63	3298.29	5087.34	4.5
Household Size	7	7	-0.24	-0.7
Total household arable land	5.43	5.41	0.02	0.0447

1% significance level; 5% significance level; 10% significance level.