Cultivating Diversity: Field Scattering as Agricultural Risk Management in Cuyo Cuyo, Department of Puno, Peru

Table 9.6
Reduction in Variance for Potato Fields of Family Q (1986-87)

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Combination # Comb. Std Dev cv % of n=1 cv Min Max
n = 1 8 3495 78.1 -- 958 11,818
n = 2 28 2179 48.7 62.3% 1421 9026
n = 3 56 1610 36.0 46.1% 1588 7818
n = 4 70 1245 27.8 35.6% 1954 7000
n = 5 56 966 21.6 27.6% 2473 6211
n = 6 28 726 16.2 20.8% 2961 5496
n = 7 8 499 11.1 14.3% 3428 4980
n = 8 1 --     4477 4477