Table 11. Factors affecting smallholder farmers’ crop productivity.
| Linear regression Number of Obs = 194 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F(9, 179) = 11.05 | ||||||
| Prob > F = 0.0000 | ||||||
| R-squared = 0.6441 | ||||||
| Root MSE = 0.74495 | ||||||
| log_yield | Coef. | Robust Std. Err. | t | P>t | [95% Conf. Interval] | |
| Age | -0.0019 | 0.0051 | -0.37 | 0.709 | -0.0120 | 0.0082 |
| Gender | 0.0385 | 0.1126 | 0.34 | 0.732 | -0.1830 | 0.2601 |
| Marital_status | 0.0076 * | 0.0379 | 0.20 | 0.841 | -0.0670 | 0.0821 |
| Education | 0.0098 * | 0.0122 | 0.80 | 0.422 | -0.0142 | 0.0338 |
| Farming_experience | 0.0043 | 0.0049 | 0.88 | 0.377 | -0.0053 | 0.0140 |
| Household_size | 0.0231 ** | 0.0181 | 1.28 | 0.201 | -0.0124 | 0.0586 |
| Income | 0.00002 ** | 0.0000 | 2.94 | 0.004 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| Fertilizer | 0.0012 *** | 0.0002 | 8.13 | 0.000 | 0.0009 | 0.0015 |
| Farm_size | -0.0652 *** | 0.0145 | -4.49 | 0.000 | -0.0938 | -0.0366 |
| Livestockqt | 0.0086 *** | 0.0018 | 4.79 | 0.000 | 0.0051 | 0.0122 |
| CSA_Practice | 0.1349 * | 0.0747 | 1.81 | 0.072 | -0.0120 | 0.2818 |
| Credit_access | -0.1171 | 0.0741 | -1.58 | 0.115 | -0.2629 | 0.0287 |
| Access_to_climate_info. | -0.1523 | 0.1974 | -0.77 | 0.441 | -0.5408 | 0.2361 |
| Extension_services | 0.0429 | 0.0846 | 0.51 | 0.612 | -0.1236 | 0.2094 |
| _cons | 7.1936 *** | 0.3095 | 23.24 | 0.000 | 6.5845 | 7.8026 |
Significance codes:
<1%,
<5% and
<10%; Author’s calculation using Stata 15MP.