Because of the ordinal nature of this variable, the category of landless farmer was included as the reference category.
In this study we focused on three categories of pastoralists: the farmers who are settled and solely grow crops, the agro-pastoralists who rear cattle as well as practice farming and the pure pastoralists/semi-nomads who only rear cattle and these have permanent shelters but move their animals in dry seasons in search of water and pasture.
But a glimmer of hope emerged: the census showed the category of young farmers between 25 and 34 years old has grown, albeit by a modest 2%.
Our study confirms that those who held the long held job title as a farmer (farmer, farm labourer and farm managers) had 1.5 times higher risk of being diagnosed with NHL than those who held a job title from the category of non-farmer.
Occupation of the respondent has four categories like farmer, merchant, government employed and daily labors.
The average number of farmers per locality was designated as the index of attractiveness and was correlated with six broad categories of factors identified by farmers as influential in urban agricultural site selection.
For this integrated model five categories of factors may influence farmers' decision to adopt a given innovation or technology (e.g., Chilonda and van Huylenbroeck 2001; Sodjinou 2011).
The SAM considers five categories of labor, i.e., small farmers, medium farmers, farm workers, non-farm skilled and non-farm unskilled workers.
The significant differences in rank distributions of farmer estimated prevalence of lameness and number of breeding ewes by category was determined by a nonparametric test for trend, an extension of the Wilcoxon rank sum test [ 11].
