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Table 2 Peanut cultivars, drying and storing practices in the central Plateau and North Eastern Haiti in 2014

From: Production, post-harvest management and gender dynamics among smallholder peanut farmers in Haiti

Variable

N

Mean

Std. Dev

Runner variety

507

0.29

0.46

Valencia variety

507

0.70

0.46

Saved seed from previous season

507

0.56

0.50

Half land or more on a slope

507

0.43

0.49

Uses fertilizer

507

0.11

0.32

Weeding

507

0.97

0.18

Dries peanuts on tarp

507

0.51

0.50

Dries peanuts on soil

507

0.43

0.50

Dries peanuts on other surface

507

0.04

0.20

Dries for 2–3 days

507

0.04

0.19

Dries for 4 days

507

0.34

0.47

Dries for 5 days

507

0.35

0.48

Dries for 6 days or more

507

0.28

0.45

Sorts peanuts

507

0.95

0.21

Sorts all bad peanuts

481

0.27

0.44

Stores at home

507

0.79

0.41

Stores at a depot

507

0.21

0.41

Uses bad peanuts as fuel

507

0.07

0.25