Table 5.
Drivers of adoption via multivariate probit model.
Variables | Improved livestock management practices |
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Artificial insemination |
Concentrate feed |
Vaccination |
Deworming |
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Coefficients | SE | Coefficients | SE | Coefficients | SE | Coefficients | SE | |
Age (Years) | 0.006*** | 0.002 | 0.004 | 0.002 | −0.004 | 0.003 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
Education (Years) | 0.019*** | 0.005 | 0.008 | 0.005 | 0.003 | 0.006 | 0.001 | 0.005 |
Gender (dummy) | 0.176* | 0.100 | −0.008 | 0.096 | −0.077 | 0.113 | 0.136 | 0.097 |
Spouse education (Years) | −0.005 | 0.003 | 0.004 | 0.003 | −0.004 | 0.004 | 0.004 | 0.003 |
Working member (Number) | −0.039** | 0.016 | 0.027* | 0.016 | −0.038** | 0.018 | 0.050*** | 0.017 |
Mobile phone (dummy) | −0.010 | 0.093 | 0.414*** | 0.094 | 0.098 | 0.109 | 0.174* | 0.091 |
Television (dummy) | 0.141** | 0.057 | 0.121** | 0.056 | 0.024 | 0.065 | 0.065 | 0.059 |
Annual income (USD) | 0.001*** | 0.000 | 0.002*** | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Electricity (dummy) | 0.413*** | 0.084 | 0.058 | 0.078 | 0.096 | 0.092 | 0.087 | 0.079 |
Crop farm size (ha.) | −0.042 | 0.057 | −0.100* | 0.055 | −0.030 | 0.064 | −0.008 | 0.059 |
Extension contacts (dummy) | 0.312*** | 0.078 | 0.025 | 0.077 | 0.813*** | 0.078 | 0.591*** | 0.088 |
No. Of livestock (Number) | 0.064*** | 0.012 | 0.021* | 0.012 | 0.073*** | 0.013 | 0.077*** | 0.013 |
Livestock raised for marketing (dummy) | 0.712*** | 0.195 | −0.161 | 0.190 | 0.156 | 0.259 | 0.838*** | 0.197 |
Livestock raised for marketing and consumption (dummy) | 0.044 | 0.186 | −0.055 | 0.184 | 0.335 | 0.251 | 0.932*** | 0.191 |
Distance from market (Kms.) | 0.000 | 0.002 | 0.000 | 0.001 | 0.002 | 0.001 | −0.001 | 0.002 |
Constant | −0.906*** | 0.258 | −0.964*** | 0.253 | −1.613*** | 0.318 | −1.438*** | 0.261 |
Log likelihood | −5343 | |||||||
Wald chi-square | 546*** | |||||||
Loglikelihood test | 181*** | |||||||
No. Of observations | 2317 |