Table 3.

Factors influencing the preference for medicinal plants present the estimates of the coefficients of the binary logistic model. Where, significance p-value ‘∗∗∗’ 0.001 ‘∗∗’ 0.01 ‘∗’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1

	Estimate	Std. Error	z value	Pr(>|z|)	OR
Intercept	−11.3655	3.587926	−3.168	0.001536 ∗∗
Sex	−0.07096	0.546232	−0.13	0.896643	0.932
Individuals earning from Agroforestry (AFI)	0.151492	0.044443	3.409	0.000653 ∗∗∗	1.164
Education	−0.33496	0.285961	−1.171	0.241465	0.715
Challenges of medicinal plant collection	−1.51703	1.07774	−1.408	0.159248	0.219
Ethnicity	0.113192	0.049517	2.286	0.022258 ∗	1.120
Social forestry beneficiary participants	0.315263	0.818113	0.385	0.699975	1.371
Knowledge of medicinal plants	1.328981	0.653626	2.033	0.042028 ∗	3.777
Availability of Medical facility	−1.0092	0.700621	−1.44	0.149745	0.365
Family size	0.00517	0.003762	1.374	0.169327	1.005
Loan	0.065782	0.037638	1.748	0.080511.	1.068
Individuals earning income from other sources (without AFI)	−0.12507	0.060984	−2.051	0.040274 ∗	0.882
Family beliefs on efficacy of MP	0.018258	0.005749	3.176	0.001494 ∗∗	1.018