Determinants Influencing the Adoption of Rice Intensification System among Smallholders in Mwea Irrigation Scheme, Kenya

Table 1

Description of variables.

Variable	Description	Measurement
Age	Age records the age of the farmer	Number of years
Gender	Gender is a variable that indexes the gender of the adopter	1 for male
		0 for female
Household size	Records the number of family members living in the same household	Number of family members
Education level	Households’ level of education	1. Primary education
		2. Secondary education
		3. Postsecondary
Off-farm occupation	The variable measures whether the household has any other occupation	1. Casual work
		2. Livestock keeping
		3. Others
Farm size	This variable indexes households with farms under rice production	Number of hectares (Ha)
Access to extension services	This variable indexes trainings on SRI	1. Access extension service
		0. Does not access
Monthly income	Measures the monthly income for the households	Kenya shillings per household. (KES)
Access to credit	Whether households access credit	1. Access
		0. Does not access
Distance from the canal	This variables measures distance from the main canal in kilometers	Distance in kilometers (KM)

Authors’ source, 2020.