An Economic Assessment of Banana Genetic Improvement and ...

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Table 5.7 Percentage of banana production, sales, and use decisions made by women, by elevation,
Uganda and Tanzania
Elevation
Uganda
Elevation
Tanzania
Action
Low High All Low High
All
“Own” the plot 36.4*** 17.0*** 34.2 9.6*** 0.0*** 8.1
Choose which banana cultivars to grow 53.6*** 17.0*** 49.5 12.9*** 0.0*** 9.8
Make final production decisions 47.5*** 18.6*** 44.3 14.9*** 0.0*** 11.3
Sell bunches of beer bananas 48.1* 32.1* 46.4 23.2*** 7.9*** 19.2
Sell bunches of cooking bananas 45.5* 34.9* 43.6 37.0*** 67.6*** 46.3
Sell bunches of other banana types 49.4* 31.3* 47.8 36.1*** 75.0*** 48.5
Cook matooke 90.3 88.9 90.1 79.8 80.8 80.1
Make beer/juice 48.1*** 4.3*** 44.9 36.5*** 8.4*** 27.9
Notes: *** and * indicate statistical significance at the 1 percent and 10 percent levels, respectively, in the difference between distributions
across elevations within countries. The data are based on decisions made for the major banana plot only.
elevation areas, given the commercial nature
of banana production, market participation
is mostly associated with selling
of banana bunches at the farm gate. Buying
banana bunches is a more common practice
among households in low-elevation areas
than it is in high-elevation areas, reflecting
the geographical shift in the locus of banana
production from the Central Region to the
southwestern highlands, from where it is
transported and distributed across markets
in the lowlands. here> 5.6near