The effect of high-yielding variety on rice yield, farm income and household nutrition: evidence from rural Bangladesh

Table 1 Summary statistics of attributes of HYV and local variety adopter

	2015
Item	Overall sample	HYV	Local variety	t-test (HYV vs local)
Item	Mean	Mean	Mean
Yield/hectare	2.56	3.48	2.24	− 1.24***
Land area (decimal)	31.55	29.92	32.12	2.20
Household head’s age	50.22	49.94	50.32	0.38
Education of the farmer	3.47	3.40	3.49	0.09
Household head’s gender	0.93	0.94	0.92	− 0.02
Agriculture as the main occupation	0.04	0.04	0.04	− 0.00
Per hectare fertilizer cost (BDT)	3900	6268	3086	− 3182***
Per hectare machinery cost (BDT)	6049	6523	5886	− 636**
Per hectare total labour hours	674	857	611	− 245***
Access to credit	0.78	0.70	0.81	0.10***
Extension service	0.12	0.08	0.14	0.06***
Have Livestock	0.92	0.91	0.93	0.01
Have fisheries	0.10	0.10	0.10	− 0.00
Non-farm income (BDT)	3725	1932	4341	2408*
Per capita total calorie intake	2782.30	2895.28	2743.40	− 151.88*
Per capita calorie intake from grain	1550.09	1626.00	1523.95	− 102.05***
Per capita calorie intake from protein	601.60	606.51	599.91	− 6.59
Per capita calorie intake from oil-fat	210.24	203.14	212.69	9.55
Per capita calorie intake from fruits and vegetables	348.72	389.41	334.71	− 54.70
Per capita calorie intake others food	71.64	70.21	72.13	1.91
No of observations	1624	416	1208

HYV high-yielding varieties
Data source: IFPRI Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey 2015
*Significant at the 10% level,** significant at the 5% level, *** significant at the 1% level

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