Table 3 Households involved in crop production and irrigation
From: Considerations for the design of nutrition-sensitive production programmes in rural South Africa
Scale of production | Whole sample | Ingquza Hill | Jozini | Maruleng | Ratlou | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Involved in cropping | If cropping, irrigating crops | Involved in cropping | If cropping, irrigating crops | Involved in cropping | If cropping, irrigating crops | Involved in cropping | If cropping, irrigating crops | Involved in cropping | If cropping, irrigating crops | ||
Engaged in crop production | Sample size | 349 | 228 | 68 | 53 | 141 | 122 | 67 | 49 | 65 | 4 |
Yes | 242 | 150 | 61 | 26 | 126 | 113 | 51 | 9 | 4 | 2 | |
Proportion (%) | 71.2 | 65.8 | 89.7 | 49.1 | 89.4 | 92.6 | 82.1 | 18.4 | 6.2 | 50.0 | |
Farmland | Sample size | 242 | 73 | – | – | 126 | 62 | 50 | 11 | – | – |
Yes | 75 | 57 | – | – | 64 | 54 | 10 | 3 | – | – | |
Proportion (%) | 31.1 | 78.1 | – | – | 50.8 | 87.1 | 20.0 | 27.3 | – | – | |
Home gardens | Sample size | 242 | 112 | 61 | 50 | 126 | 19 | 51 | 39 | 4 | 4 |
Yes | 120 | 53 | 56 | 25 | 20 | 18 | 40 | 8 | 4 | 2 | |
Proportion (%) | 49.6 | 47.3 | 91.8 | 50.0 | 15.9 | 94.7 | 78.4 | 20.5 | 100 | 50.0 | |
School gardens | Sample size | 242 | 4 | 61 | 2 | 126 | 2 | – | – | – | – |
Yes | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | |
Proportion (%) | 1.7 | 75 | 3.3 | 50.0 | 1.6 | 100 | – | – | – | – | |
Communal gardens | Sample size | 242 | 18 | 61 | – | 126 | 18 | – | – | – | – |
Yes | 20 | 18 | 1 | – | 19 | – | – | – | – | – | |
Proportion (%) | 8.3 | 100 | 1.6 | – | 15.1 | 100 | – | – | – | – | |