Production, consumption, and market supply of edible crickets: insights from East Africa

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 2 Summary statistics of the survey sample from Western Kenya

	[1] Adopters (n = 139)		[2] Non-adopters (n = 162)		[3] Pooled (n = 301)		[1–2]
	Mean	Std.dev	Mean	Std.dev	Mean	Std.dev	t-test
Training sources (%): Local public universities					15.61	36.36
NGOs					32.56	46.94
Fellow farmers					51.83	50.04
Production starter kit provided (% Yes)					28.57	45.25
Amount of cricket harvested (Kgs)	3.09	5.44
Amount of cricket sold (Kgs)	2.55	10.04
Gender HH (1 = Male)	57.55	49.60	62.96	48.44	60.47	48.97	0.96
Age of HH in years	45.84	13.53	49.38	13.27	47.59	13.48	− 1.87*
Formal education of HH in years	9.53	3.45	9.26	3.37	9.39	3.40	0.69
Household size (count)	4.90	2.15	4.97	2.04	4.94	2.09	0.29
Land Size in acres	1.72	1.95	1.75	1.81	1.74	1.87	− 0.10
Total annual household income in KES^a	255,25.20	1099123.00	88258.02	172075.20	162519.60	761209.70	1.91*
Distance to main road in walking minutes	10.35	10.90	12.06	13.87	11.27	12.59	− 1.18
Distance to main market in walking minutes	48.92	56.74	55.75	42.64	52.53	49.74	− 1.19
Cricket consumption (%Yes)	67.62	46.60	37.65	48.60	51.50	50.06	5.42***
Access to Extension (% Yes)	35.25	47.95	33.95	47.50	34.55	47.63	0.24
Group Membership (% Yes)	86.33	34.48	77.16	42.11	81.40	38.98	2.05**
Access to credit (% Yes)	30.21	46.09	28.40	45.23	53.01	50.06	0.35

Quantities of crickets harvested and sold are reported in kilograms (Kgs) in a 3-weeks cycle; HH-Household head; KES-Kenyan Shilling; Level of significance: *10%, **5%, ***1%
^aExchange rate at the time of the survey: $1 (USD) = Ksh. 104