Production Practices, Postharvest Handling, and Quality of Cowpea Seed Used by Farmers in Makueni and Taita Taveta Counties in Kenya
Table 4
Percentage of physical purity components of cowpea seeds obtained from Wote, Makindu and Mwatate in various agroecological zones.
Agro-ecological zone
Pure seeds
Other variety
Other crops
Insect damaged
Inert matter
Shrivelled
Farm saved
LM5 (Mwatate)
82.1a
7.9a
1.1a
6.7c
1.5a
1.5a
LM5 (Makindu)
79.3a
2.0b
0.4b
15.9b
2.1a
0.7a
LM4 (Wote)
61.6b
1.1b
0.3b
33.6a
2.0a
1.5a
Mean
73.7
2.8
0.5
20.3
2.0
1.1
LSD ()
17.3
4.4
1.0
16.4
1.2
2.1
CV (%)
29.8
198.3
264.8
102.8
80.5
241.3
Market sourced
LM5 (Makindu)
91.2a
0.8a
0.3a
5.5b
1.3b
0.9b
LM4 (Wote)
90.0a
3.7a
0.4a
4.6b
1.1b
1.2a
LM5 (Mwatate)
80.2b
2.3a
0.7a
13.2a
2.3a
1.1b
Mean
84.7
2.3
0.5
9.6
1.8
1.2
LSD ()
14.2
4.5
0.9
14.9
1.0
0.9
CV (%)
19.2
219.6
195.2
177.4
61.4
86.3
Means with different letters are significantly different () with Fisher’s multiple range tests. LSD = least significant difference; CV = coefficient of variance; LM4: lower midland zone IV; LM5: lower midland zone V.