Skip to main content

Table 4 Awareness of farmers of EXW etiology, transmission and spread

From: Farmers’ knowledge and perception of enset Xanthomonas wilt in southern Ethiopia

Variables

Hadiya (%)

Kembata-Tembaro (%)

Wolaita (%)

Chi-square test

Chi-square P value

EXW etiology

     

Contaminated farm tools

47.8

33.3

20

70.8

2.26867E−10

Animal and insect

11

6.4

10

  

Infected leaf left in enset farm

1.2

12.8

27.5

  

Wind

0

24.4

13.7

  

Environmental shock

2.5

3.8

11.2

  

Animal dung

0

2.6

3.8

  

No idea

37.5

16.7

13.8

  

Means of EBW transmission from external source

Contaminated materials

41

36.25

42.5

30.51

0.002

Animal and Insect

20

17.5

28.75

  

Animal dung

20

11.25

6.25

  

Air

5

5

3.75

  

Farm tools

5

10

5

  

Runoff

8.75

10

7.5

  

No idea

0

10

6.25

  

Means of EBW transmission from internal source

Contaminated materials

70

47.5

53.75

17.3

0.068

Animal and insect

8.75

8.75

5

  

Contact between infected and healthy plants

5

15

12.5

  

Air

9

20

18

  

Farm tools

3.75

2.5

8.75

  

No idea

3.75

6.25

2.5