Table 4.
Determinants of Agricultural technology adoption.
| Variables | Alternative technology Adoption Packages |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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F1M0H0 |
F0M1H0 |
F0M0H1 |
F1M1H0 |
F1M0H1 |
F0M1H1 |
F1M1H1 |
|
| Coef.(SE) | Coef.(SE) | Coef.(SE) | Coef.(SE) | Coef.(SE) | Coef.(SE) | Coef.(SE) | |
| Sex | -0.023 (0.260) | 0.164 (0.191) | 0.043 (0.300) | -0.234 (0.217) | -0.238 (0.257) | 0.171 (0.270) | 0.011 (0.227) |
| Age | 0.006 (0.008) | 0.009 (0.005) | -0.008 (0.009) | -0.003 (0.006) | -0.021∗∗∗ (0.007) | 0.001 (0.008) | -0.006 (0.007) |
| Education | 0.116∗∗∗ (0.032) | 0.034 (0.027) | 0.004 (0.040) | 0.098∗∗∗ (0.029) | 0.032 (0.032) | 0.017 (0.037) | 0.058∗ (0.030) |
| Household size | -0.013 (0.055) | 0.106∗∗∗ (0.040) | -0.112 (0.067) | 0.077∗ (0.045) | -0.049 (0.051) | 0.027 (0.055) | 0.026 (0.046) |
| Off-farm employment | 0.410 (0.391) | 0.537∗ (0.322) | 0.418 (0.494) | 0.368 (0.355) | -0.137 (0.463) | 0.574 (0.418) | 0.130 (0.374) |
| TLU | 0.091∗ (0.050) | 0.094∗∗∗ (0.034) | 0.105∗∗∗ (0.037) | 0.080∗∗ (0.036) | 0.126∗∗∗ (0.036) | 0.113∗∗∗ (0.037) | 0.175∗∗∗ (0.036) |
| Remittance | -0.047∗ (0.028) | -0.040∗∗ (0.020) | -0.024 (0.031) | -0.036∗∗∗ (0.011) | -0.028∗ (0.017) | -0.048 (0.034) | -0.038∗∗ (0.017) |
| Distance to market | -0.005∗∗ (0.003) | 0.001 (0.002) | -0.000 (0.003) | -0.005∗∗ (0.002) | -0.001 (0.003) | -0.006∗∗ (0.003) | -0.006∗∗∗ (0.002) |
| Distance to zonal town | -0.005∗∗∗ (0.001) | -0.003∗∗∗ (0.001) | -0.000 (0.001) | -0.007∗∗∗ (0.001) | -0.008∗∗∗ (0.001) | -0.001 (0.001) | -0.010∗∗∗ (0.001) |
| Distance to road | -0.020∗∗ (0.009) | 0.017∗∗∗ (0.005) | 0.005 (0.008) | -0.007 (0.006) | -0.005 (0.008) | 0.015∗∗ (0.007) | -0.004 (0.007) |
| Extension visit | 4.051∗∗∗ (0.376) | 1.128∗∗∗ (0.370) | 1.814∗∗∗ (0.437) | 4.612∗∗∗ (0.357) | 4.324∗∗∗ (0.385) | 1.579∗∗∗ (0.408) | 4.520∗∗∗ (0.363) |
| Credit access | 0.841∗∗∗ (0.311) | -0.290 (0.290) | 0.760∗∗ (0.374) | 0.669∗∗ (0.280) | 1.150∗∗∗ (0.298) | 0.561 (0.354) | 1.241∗∗∗ (0.278) |
| Advisory service | 0.394∗ (0.239) | 0.492∗∗∗ (0.162) | -0.019 (0.270) | 0.683∗∗∗ (0.199) | 0.876∗∗∗ (0.257) | 0.321 (0.226) | 0.759∗∗∗ (0.214) |
| Tenure security | 0.507∗∗ (0.227) | 0.553∗∗∗ (0.167) | 0.413 (0.267) | 1.340∗∗∗ (0.198) | 0.994∗∗∗ (0.221) | 0.311 (0.243) | 1.085∗∗∗ (0.203) |
| Plot distance | -0.004 (0.004) | -0.323∗∗∗ (0.083) | -0.004 (0.012) | -0.002 (0.002) | -0.006∗ (0.003) | -0.125 (0.085) | -0.382∗∗∗ (0.124) |
| Plot PWI | 0.053 (0.081) | 0.029 (0.065) | -0.093 (0.089) | 0.072 (0.071) | 0.091 (0.091) | -0.050 (0.106) | 0.181∗∗ (0.076) |
| soil quality (fair) | 0.590∗∗∗ (0.218) | -0.032 (0.162) | 0.114 (0.267) | 0.215 (0.181) | 0.107 (0.211) | 0.237 (0.236) | 0.313∗ (0.189) |
| soil quality (poor) | 0.532 (0.384) | 0.275 (0.279) | 0.294 (0.435) | 0.090 (0.336) | -0.294 (0.439) | 0.250 (0.408) | 0.491 (0.349) |
| Land size | 0.025 (0.096) | -0.105 (0.109) | 0.104 (0.080) | -0.073 (0.102) | 0.120 (0.077) | 0.128∗ (0.076) | 0.012 (0.089) |
| Region Amhara | -0.520 (0.322) | -0.096 (0.263) | -0.489 (0.422) | -0.354 (0.293) | 0.422 (0.390) | -0.457 (0.421) | 0.357 (0.316) |
| Region Oromia | 0.734∗ (0.376) | 0.016 (0.332) | 0.809∗ (0.480) | 0.692∗ (0.360) | 2.740∗∗∗ (0.434) | 0.680 (0.452) | 2.018∗∗∗ (0.376) |
| Region SNNP | -0.608∗ (0.348) | -0.188 (0.280) | -0.004 (0.455) | 0.440 (0.302) | 0.505 (0.421) | 0.564 (0.422) | 1.267∗∗∗ (0.325) |
| Constant | -2.401∗ (1.252) | -1.999∗∗ (0.983) | -0.607 (1.343) | -2.586∗∗ (1.094) | -2.901∗∗ (1.356) | -1.821 (1.595) | -4.276∗∗∗ (1.155) |
Model VCE = Robust; Pseudo R2 = 0.2222; Number of observation = 2316; SE is standard error in parenthesis; the signs (∗, ∗∗, ∗∗∗) represents significant levels at 10%, 5%, and 1% respectively.