Determinants of maize seed income and adoption of foundation seed production: evidence from Palpa District of Nepal

Table 5 Determinants of adoption of foundation seed production using probit model

Variables	Coefficients	Standard error	p value	dy/dx
Gender of HHH^a	0.591	0.498	0.235	0.027
Education of HHH (year)	−0.069*	0.042	0.097	−0.004
Family type^a	−0.902**	0.430	0.036	−0.059
Active members	0.156*	0.083	0.058	0.009
Livestock holding (LSU)	0.033	0.021	0.121	0.002
Farm category	0.593*	0.357	0.096	0.041
log Income (NRs.)	1.792***	0.437	0.000	0.106
Membership in cooperative^a	−0.246	0.412	0.551	−0.015
Training^a	1.023**	0.496	0.039	0.046
Seed source from NMRP^a	−0.023	0.414	0.956	−0.001
Constant	−22.922***	5.140	0.000
Observations	182
Log likelihood	−39.4317
LR chi² (10)	38.59***
Prob > chi²	0.000
Pseudo R ²	0.3285

***, **, * Indicate significant at the 1, 5 and 10% level of significance, respectively
^a Indicates a dummy variable

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