Assessment of Cassava Utilization Patterns, Postharvest Handling Practices, and Productivity Influencing Factors in South and Southwest Ethiopia

Table 3

Descriptive statistics for continuous and dummy variables.

Variables	Mean	Std. dev.	Minimum	Maximum
Age of the household head in years	45.89	11.39	25.00	75.00
Family size in number	5.55	1.85	1.00	10.00
Land holding size (ha)	2.22	1.28	0.63	6.50
Earthing up rate in number	2.07	0.62	1.00	4.00
Cassavas production experience in years	12.07	8.06	2.00	37.00
Maturity period in months	14.34	3.71	8.00	24.00
Training participation in number	2.18	0.95	0.00	3.00
Plant population density in number of plants ha^−1	42895.56	17168.01	10000	83333.33
Education level of the HH head		Frequency		Percent
Learned formal school		97		48.50
Not learned formal school		103		51.50
Sex of the household head
Male		178		89.00
Female		22		11.00
Cropping system
Intercropped		118		59.00
Pure stand		82		41.00
Crop rotation
Rotated		153		76.50
Not rotated		47		23.50
Topography
Undulating		162		81.00
Not undulating (level/plain)		38		19.00
Pests
Pest appeared		87		43.50
Pest not appeared		113		56.50
Variety type
Improved		73		36.50
Not improved		127		63.50
Product market price
Low price		89		44.50
Not low price		111		55.50

Source: own computation result, 2022.