From: Production risk and adoption of irrigation technology: evidence from small-scale farmers in Chile
Category | Modern irrigation | Traditional irrigation | Non-irrigators | Whole sample | ||||
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Mean | Std Dev | Mean | Std Dev | Mean | Std Dev | Mean | Std Dev | |
Production (kilos) | 114,114.30 | 351,117.10 | 18,721.30 | 41,402.10 | 9033.70 | 48,555.60 | 11,739.50 | 61,987.70 |
Yield (kilos/hectares) | 13,636.14 | 10,693.16 | 11,791.30 | 8734.11 | 11,227.95 | 8531.67 | 11,341.29 | 8591.53 |
Total surface (hectares) | 24.93 | 36.70 | 4.44 | 12.73 | 15.81 | 25.25 | 14.08 | 24.21 |
Cultivated land | 4.76 | 9.94 | 1.47 | 3.09 | 0.66 | 1.89 | 0.83 | 2.54 |
Total labor (N°) | 6.14 | 7.30 | 4.18 | 6.76 | 3.46 | 4.57 | 3.59 | 5.01 |
Capital (Chilean pesosa) | 6,862,143 | 8,778,120 | 3,394,974 | 7,209,798 | 2,408,747 | 4,253,057 | 2,608,270 | 4,932,854 |
Fertilizer machine use | ||||||||
No use | 84 % | 91 % | 97 % | 96 % | ||||
Draft animal | 0 | 0.05 % | 0.03 % | 0.04 % | ||||
Draft mechanical | 15 % | 7 % | 2.4 % | 3.3 % | ||||
Rainfall (mm) | 963.1 | 513.8 | 467.3 | 343.7 | 1460.7 | 473 | 1319.5 | 405.9 |
Standard deviation | 208.7 | 100.8 | 189.9 | 90.7 | 220.3 | 30.4 | 215.3 | 48.1 |
Skewness | −0.27 | 0.858 | −0.043 | 0.818 | 0.033 | 0.794 | 0.018 | 0.79 |
Soil quality (ratio) | 43.0 % | 0.26 | 43.0 % | 0.23 | 44.0 % | 0.24 | 44.0 % | 0.24 |
Location variables | ||||||||
North zone | 17.0 % | 22.0 % | 0.03 % | 3.0 % | ||||
Central zone | 64.0 % | 78.0 % | 40.0 % | 47.0 % | ||||
South zone | 17.0 % | 0.0 % | 59.0 % | 49.0 % | ||||
Observations | 70 | 1153 | 6051 | 7274 |