Production Practices, Postharvest Handling, and Quality of Cowpea Seed Used by Farmers in Makueni and Taita Taveta Counties in Kenya

Table 6

Percentage of infected, mouldy, and dead seeds in farm-saved and market-sourced seeds in different agroecological zones in Makueni and Taita Taveta.

Agroecological zone	Infected seedlings	Mouldy seeds	Dead seeds
Farm saved
LM5 (Mwatate)	19.0a	6.4a	4.4a
LM4 (Wote)	12.7b	11.6a	17.9a
LM 5 (Makindu)	12.7b	10.8a	17.8a
Mean	14.4	9.9	13.4
LSD ()	10.3	8.8	14.9
CV (%)	91.7	112.6	143.6
Market sourced
LM5 (Mwatate)	12.4a	5.6c	6.6a
LM4 (Wote)	13.3a	13.8b	10.3a
LM 5 (Makindu)	3.0b	25.3a	6.0a
Mean	10.6	11.7	7.3
LSD ()	9.5	8.0	10.0
CV (%)	102.2	78.3	155.5

Means with different letters are significantly different () with Fisher’s multiple range tests. LSD = least significant difference; CV = coefficient of variance.