Impact of Irrigation Ecology on Rice Production Efficiency in Ghana

Table 4

Production situation under rain fed and irrigation production.

	Irrigation	Rain fed	Mean	Z-statistic
	(n=133)	(n=217)	Difference
Variables	Mean	Mean
Rice farm size in acres	2.89	2.66	0.23	0.91
Fertilizer used in kg	283.54	215.08	68.47	2.63
Seed used in kg	87.32	64.19	23.13	2.13
Labour used (average	12	9	3	2.29
number of people who
worked)
Fertilizer price in GHS	1.73	1.40	0.32	0.48
Seed price in GHS	0.62	0.66	-0.04	-0.92
Labour price in GHS	38.96	41.21	-2.25	-0.47
Yield per acres	1511.41	830.15	681.26	5.7
Total output kg	3994.67	2171.38	1823.29	5.06
Output price per kg in GHS	1.40	1.36	0.04	1.47
Total Revenue GHS	2249.68	1148.34	1101.34	5.52
Total cost of production	572.43	428.09	144.34	3.95
GHS
Gross margins GHS	1677.25	720.25	957.00	5.4

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