Table 3 Kruskal – Wallis test statistic for seasonality of different crops across the selected districts.

From: Weather-driven groundnut price forecasting and profitability assessment of cropping patterns in Tamil Nadu using boosting algorithms

District

Crop

Seasonality Period

Month

Quarter

Year

Erode

Groundnut

13.91

10.74**

624.02***

Tobacco

17.6*

11.52***

432.66***

Namakkal

Black Gram

4.71

4.22

719.72***

Green Gram

4.15

3.2

720.16***

Groundnut

18.43*

13.6***

545.98***

Maize

22.6**

20.22***

613.61***

Onion

49.07***

29.96***

78.34***

Salem

Black Gram

2.9

1.63

590***

Green Gram

2.71

1.44

695.26***

Groundnut

22.87**

19.48***

536.06***

  1. *p – value < 0.1, **p – value < 0.05, ***p – value < 0.01.
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