Table 2 Socio-demographic characteristics of the surveyed farmers in function of sociolinguistic groups
| Sociolinguistic groups | Total | Percentage | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fon | Idaasha | Mahi | Nago | Ifé | Tchabé | Adja | ||||
| Gender | Men | 13 | 12 | 27 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 73 | 72.3 |
| Women | 5 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 27.7 | |
| Age | [35–56] | 15 | 14 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 72 | 71.3 |
| [56–66] | 3 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 21.8 | |
| [66–76] | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6.9 | |
| Education | No formal education | 14 | 18 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 80 | 79.2 |
| Primary | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 15.8 | |
| Secondary | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | |
| Experience | [1–11] | 7 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 34 | 33.7 |
| [11–22] | 11 | 16 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 60 | 59.4 | |
| [22–32] | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6.9 | |