A Cross-Sectional Study of Pesticide Use and Knowledge of Smallholder Potato Farmers in Uganda

Table 4

Number (mean ± SE) of pesticide applications per season by potato farmers in Uganda.

Number of pesticide spray regimes per season of three months	Entire sample mean ± SE ()	Agroecological zone (mean ± SE)
		SWH ()	EH ()	LAC ()
(1) Fungicides	4.5 ± 0.2	4.2 ± 0.2	5.3 ± 0.4	2.2 ± 0.3
(2) Insecticides	3.8 ± 0.2	3.7 ± 0.1	4.2 ± 0.3	1.4 ± 0.3
(3) Herbicides	1.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	1.0 ± 0.0	1.0 ± 0.0

Mean values with the same letter in the same row are not significantly different at . SWH: southwestern highlands; EH: eastern highlands; LAC: Lake Albert Crescent.