Regional Sustainability ›› 2023, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (2): 139-149.doi: 10.1016/j.regsus.2023.04.002
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Enoch YELELIERE(), Philip ANTWI-AGYEI, Frank BAFFOUR-ATA
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*E-mail address: Enoch YELELIERE, Philip ANTWI-AGYEI, Frank BAFFOUR-ATA. Impacts of climate change on the yields of leguminous crops in the Guinea Savanna agroecological zone of Ghana[J]. Regional Sustainability, 2023, 4(2): 139-149.
Table 1
Output of Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) on the impacts of climate variables on the yields of leguminous crops."
Leguminous crops (dependent variable) | Climate variable (explanatory variable) | Correlation coefficient (r) | P-value | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Groundnuts | Annual rainfall | 0.0009 | 0.270 | |
Annual mean temperature | 0.5370 | 0.100 | ||
Rainfall onset | -0.0036 | 0.710 | ||
Rainfall cessation | 0.0210 | 0.050** | ||
Length of rainy days | 0.0211 | 0.060 | ||
Number of dry days | -0.0090 | 0.320 | ||
Multiple R | 0.700 | |||
R2 | 0.490 | |||
P-value (overall) | 0.105 | |||
Cowpeas | Annual rainfall | 0.0008 | 0.200 | |
Annual mean temperature | 0.5420 | 0.040** | ||
Rainfall onset | -0.0034 | 0.640 | ||
Rainfall cessation | 0.0120 | 0.140 | ||
Length of rainy days | 0.0087 | 0.150 | ||
Number of dry days | -0.0110 | 0.120 | ||
Multiple R | 0.740 | |||
R2 | 0.550 | |||
P-value (overall) | 0.074 | |||
Soybeans | Annual rainfall | 0.0008 | 0.200 | |
Annual mean temperature | 0.6690 | 0.010** | ||
Rainfall onset | -0.0027 | 0.690 | ||
Rainfall cessation | 0.0124 | 0.110 | ||
Length of rainy days | 0.0124 | 0.110 | ||
Number of dry days | -0.0160 | 0.030** | ||
Multiple R | 0.830 | |||
R2 | 0.690 | |||
P-value (overall) | 0.034 |
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