Table 4

Relative importance (%) of Zonocerus variegatus pressure in different fields types in the humid forest zone of Southern Cameroon.
All
AECD-Blocks
 Affub owondo
 Affub bidi
 Assan
 Essep
 Garden crops
 Young perennial crop
 p-value
Yaounde
 10
 34
 21
 9
 20
 5
 <0.0001
Mbalmayo
 31
 28
 9
 5
 17
 9
 <0.0001
Ebolowa
 19
 28
 20
 12
 7
 14
 <0.001
     p-value
 <0.01
 NS
 <0.05
 NS
 <0.05
 NS
     Means
 20
 30
 17
 9
 15
 9
 <0.0001
Female
Yaounde
 11
 38
 21
 9
 17
 3
 0.0121
Mbalmayo
 29
 21
 12
 8
 25
 5
 0.0021
Ebolowa
 20
 28
 22
 9
 5
 16
 0.0346
     p-value
 NS
 NS
 NS
 NS
 0.0380
 NS
     Means
 20
 29
 18
 9
 16
 8
 0.0001
Male
Yaounde
 10
 31
 21
 9
 22
 7
 0.0029
Mbalmayo
 33
 36
 6
 3
 10
 12
 0.0010
Ebolowa
 19
 28
 19
 15
 9
 11
 0.0175
     p-value
 0.0209
 NS
 0.0220
 NS
 0.0422
 NS
     Means
 21
 32
 15
 9
 14
 10
 <0.0001

The values are averages of the scores for 10 groups of farmers (5 male and 5 female groups) interviewed per block. Affub owondo is Grandnut' field. Essep is dry season' fields. Assan is marsh' fields. p-value is the significance levels of a non parametric test of Kruskal-Wallis; NS = nonsignificant (p > 0.05). AECD-Blocks = Agro-Ecological, Cultural and Demographic Blocks.

Kekeunou et al. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2006 2:17   doi:10.1186/1746-4269-2-17