From: Road accessibility and agricultural extension services in Malawi
(1) | (2) | |
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Variables | Poisson | NB |
Age | − 0.008*** | − 0.009*** |
(0.002) | (0.00269) | |
Female | − 0.170*** | − 0.172* |
(0.058) | (0.0910) | |
Married | 0.075 | 0.0928 |
(0.063) | (0.0984) | |
Muslim | − 0.102* | − 0.103 |
(0.056) | (0.0844) | |
Household Size | 0.027*** | 0.0309** |
(0.007) | (0.0126) | |
Years of schooling | 0.022*** | 0.0286*** |
(0.005) | (0.00871) | |
Farming experience | 0.011*** | 0.0115*** |
(0.002) | (0.00285) | |
HDDS | 0.041*** | 0.0476*** |
(0.009) | (0.0141) | |
Log of Household Economic Resources | 0.051*** | 0.0590*** |
(0.009) | (0.0123) | |
Log of Cropland Size | 0.034 | − 0.0183 |
(0.040) | (0.0669) | |
Loan Access | 0.045 | 0.0780 |
(0.045) | (0.0763) | |
Off-Farm Employment | − 0.002 | − 0.00512 |
(0.051) | (0.0772) | |
Communication Tools | 0.308*** | 0.277*** |
(0.045) | (0.0683) | |
Lead Farmer | 0.445*** | 0.472*** |
(0.043) | (0.0743) | |
Livestock | 0.219*** | 0.170** |
(0.047) | (0.0682) | |
Tree | 0.364*** | 0.399*** |
(0.035) | (0.0581) | |
Maize | 0.265*** | 0.247** |
(0.087) | (0.123) | |
Cereal | − 0.165*** | − 0.164* |
(0.060) | (0.0938) | |
Tuber | 0.064 | 0.0364 |
(0.050) | (0.0885) | |
Bean | 0.199*** | 0.223*** |
(0.037) | (0.0574) | |
Groundnut | 0.066* | 0.0663 |
(0.037) | (0.0616) | |
Vegetable | 0.119** | 0.123 |
(0.049) | (0.0830) | |
Tobacco | − 0.015 | 0.0585 |
(0.057) | (0.0950) | |
Risk-Averse | − 0.101*** | − 0.110* |
(0.039) | (0.0611) | |
Farmer Organization | 0.110*** | 0.123*** |
(0.022) | (0.0419) | |
Difficulty in Accessing Fertilizer | − 0.050*** | − 0.0524* |
(0.016) | (0.0271) | |
Market | − 0.040 | − 0.0542 |
(0.035) | (0.0570) | |
Log of Distance to Paved Roads | − 0.175*** | − 0.186*** |
(0.018) | (0.0297) | |
Number of extension agents | 0.107*** | 0.113*** |
(0.020) | (0.0374) | |
Number of Agricultural Projects | − 0.007 | − 0.00597 |
(0.011) | (0.0178) | |
Number of Demonstration Plots and Farm Trials | 0.053*** | 0.0491*** |
(0.007) | (0.0131) | |
Feed the future zone of influence | 0.501*** | 0.484*** |
(0.044) | (0.0683) | |
South Region | − 0.345*** | − 0.382*** |
(0.077) | (0.128) | |
Central Region | − 0.312*** | − 0.409*** |
(0.076) | (0.127) | |
Constant | − 1.203*** | − 1.147*** |
(0.186) | (0.292) | |
\(\upgamma\) | − 0.154** | |
(0.067) | ||
Observations | 2441 | 2441 |