Table 3 Proportion of farmers who employed the various harvest and post-harvest practices
Harvest practice | Percent of farmers |
|---|---|
Stage of harvest | |
 Physiological maturity | 27.0 |
 Morphological maturity | 5.4 |
 Beyond morphological maturity (completely dry plant) | 83.8 |
Delayed harvest when crop had reached maturity | 40.5 |
Duration of delayed harvest | |
 0–6 days | 66.1 |
 7–14 days | 25.6 |
 15–30 days | 8.3 |
Handling of crop immediately after harvest | |
 Transported and first kept in a heap and awaited threshing | 78.7 |
 Threshed in the field immediately after harvest | 26.1 |
 Heaped in the field and awaited threshing | 2.5 |