**-** **<u>Table 3: Comparing PSG and non PSG participants based on farm survey data</u>**

|||<br>**PSG pr**|<br>**ogram ben**|<br>**eficiaries**||**Eligible**|**non-benef.**|_Δ_**Sig**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**To**|**tal**||**Size class**||**T**|**otal**||
||**2022**|**2023**|**<20**|**20-50**|**50-120**|**2022**|**2023**||
|**Panel A: Farm characteristics**|||||||||
|Total area cultivated (ha)|68.7|78.4|14.0|50.6|107.0|55.4|70.0||
|Members working full time on farm|1.51|1.76|1.86|1.68|1.74|1.64|2.01||
|Members working part-time on farm|0.83|1.04|1.19|1.10|0.98|0.86|1.07||
|Permanent employees|0.89|1.08|0.17|1.81|1.20|2.11|2.45||
|<br>Have tractor < 40 hp||0.22|0.28|0.20|0.20||0.25||
|<br>Have tractor 40-120 hp||0.71|0.38|0.72|0.82||0.66||
|Have tractor < 120 hp||0.24|0.04|0.14|0.33||0.25||
|<br>Have combine harvester||0.36|0.20|0.38|0.41||0.33||
|Rating of personal situation (1-10)|3.65|4.43|4.24|4.18|4.55|3.54|4.24||
|Received public support (%)|0.43|0.37|0.43|0.35|0.35|0.40|0.39||
|if yes, amount received|904|1000|886|1115|1021|870|859||
|<br>Lease price paid for land (US$/ha)|125.8|142.7|110.3|101.3|154.2|107|104.4||
|Interested in buying land|0.80|0.75|0.55|0.71|0.83|0.70|0.65||
|Max. price to be paid (US$/ha)|1718|1552|1600|1594|1534|1473|1449||
|<br>Ever considered applying for credit|0.68|0.67|0.41|0.63|0.76|0.65|0.59||
|<br>Received credit last 12 months (|0.16|0.15|0.01|0.09|0.21|0.10|0.11||
|if yes, amount received (US$)|40,735|25,953|547|56,741|23,976|37,483|21,902||
|if yes, interest paid|6.51|10.41|3.00|12.20|10.39|5.10|9.22||
|<br>Interest in working capital loan||0.40|0.68|0.43|0.30||0.42||
|<br>If yes, amount desired (US$)||38,078|10,202|30,290|43,724||26,503||
|Interest in investment loan (%)||0.40|0.67|0.48|0.30||0.44||
|<br>If yes, amount desired (US$)||90,907|31,632|76,122|103,145||75,135||
|Interest in 25% match grant (MG)||0.63|0.41|0.64|0.70||0.53||
|If yes, target amount (US$)||44,953|16,555|41,910|51,929||38,584||
|**Panel B: PSG benefits & its use**|||||||||
|Used SAR to apply for support||0.73|0.51|0.76|0.80||0.67||
|Amount of PSG received (US$)||4,718|737|3,236|6,426||||
|used for crop prod./harvest input||0.87|0.85|0.93|0.86||||
|used for crop investment||0.01|0.04|0.02|0.00||||
|used for livestock||0.11|0.10|0.04|0.14||||
|used for consumption/other||0.01|0.00|0.01|0.00||||
|<br>Area (ha) supported by PSG||55.66|8.70|38.17|75.81||||
|<br>Obtained support other than PSG||0.62|0.19|0.63|0.76||0.49||
|<br>If yes, storage||0.02|0.00|0.00|0.02||0.05||
|<br>If yes, credit 5-7-9||0.03|0.00|0.00|0.04||0.01||
|<br>If yes, fertilizer||0.87|0.57|0.78|0.91||0.89||
|<br>If yes, seed||0.33|0.29|0.34|0.34||0.46||
|<br>If yes, other||0.11|0.24|0.08|0.11||0.03||
|<br>No. of obs.||514|110|79|325||345||

_Source:_ Own computation based on PSG records. _Note:_ The types of support other than PSG was a multi response question and hence they do not add up to one, and the other category includes cash grant. Other purposes for which SAR was used include checking information on land parcels or prices. _Δ_ Sig is the result of a t test for _ΔPSG_ - _ΔNon-PSG_ = 0 where _ΔPSG_ and _ΔNon-PSG_ is the difference between values in 2023 and 2022, for PSG participants and eligible non-participants, respectively.

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