Enhancing agricultural value chains through technology adoption: a case study in the horticultural sector of a developing country

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the independent variables used in the study

Variable	Abbrev.	Description	Continuous variables				Categorical variables (%)
Variable	Abbrev.	Description	Avg	S.D	Min	Max	Categorical variables (%)
Education	educ	Level of formal education (farmer years of schooling)	8.70	3.56	0	17
Family size	for	Number of persons in the family group	3.98	1.35	1	8
Productive area	sup	Productive area of the farm (ha)	2.65	2.57	0.40	12
Permanent labor	trab_per	Number of employees working on the farm permanently	1.25	0.53	0	3
Investment¹	inv	Number of items in which investments are made	1.75	0.98	0	4
Community	commune	Community where the farm is located (1 = Quillota, 0 = otherwise)	0.61	0.49	0	1	0 = 0.39	1 = 0.61
Associativity	asoc	Associated head of household (1 = if belonging to an agricultural association, 0 = otherwise)	0.23	0.42	0	1	0 = 0.77	1 = 0.23

¹This discrete variable was constructed as the sum of the items the farmers have invested in across machinery, equipment, buildings, vehicles, or none of the above

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