Variable | Asante Akyem South | Asunafo North | Fanteakwa | Pooled | ||||
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Freq | % | Freq | % | Freq | % | Freq | % | |
Gender | ||||||||
Male | 21 | 42 | 25 | 50 | 38 | 78 | 66 | 44 |
Female | 29 | 58 | 25 | 50 | 12 | 24 | 84 | 56 |
Educational status | ||||||||
None | 4 | 8 | 20 | 40 | 14 | 28 | 38 | 25.3 |
Basic/non-formal | 43 | 86 | 29 | 58 | 28 | 56 | 100 | 66.7 |
Secondary/pre-tertiary | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 12 | 8 |
Land occupancy status | ||||||||
Own land/inherited | 31 | 62 | 29 | 58 | 21 | 42 | 81 | 54 |
Family/stool land | 7 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 12 |
Rented | 6 | 12 | – | 11 | 22 | 17 | 11.3 | |
Sharecropping | 6 | 12 | 16 | 32 | 7 | 14 | 29 | 19.3 |
Other (government lands, forest reserves) | – | – | 5 | 10 | 5 | 3.3 | ||
Cropping culture practised | ||||||||
Sole cropping | 3 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 11 | 22 | 24 | 16 |
Intercropping | 47 | 94 | 40 | 80 | 39 | 78 | 126 | 84 |
Main reason for growing cocoyam | ||||||||
Household consumption only | 1 | 2 | 10 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 |
Mainly for household consumption, sell surplus | 1 | 2 | 9 | 18 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 8.7 |
Equally for sale and household consumption | 30 | 60 | 23 | 46 | 23 | 46 | 76 | 50.7 |
Mainly for sale | 18 | 36 | 8 | 16 | 23 | 46 | 49 | 32.7 |
Target produce for sale | ||||||||
Corms only | 26 | 53.1 | 27 | 67.5 | 39 | 79.6 | 93 | 67.4 |
Both leaves and corms | 23 | 46.9 | 13 | 32.5 | 10 | 20.4 | 45 | 32.6 |
Leaves only | – | – | – | – | ||||
Major labour sources | ||||||||
Family labour | 33 | 66 | 46 | 92 | 42 | 84 | 121 | 80.6 |
Hired labour | 17 | 34 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 29 | 19.4 |
N (Pooled) = 150; N (AAS) = 50; N (AN_D) = 50; N (F_D) = 50 |