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

Table 6 Determinants of income from maize seed production

Variables	Coefficients	Standard error	t value	p value
Gender of HHH^a	0.007	0.081	0.08	0.934
Age of HHH (year)	0.006**	0.003	2.04	0.043
Education of HHH (year)	0.015*	0.009	1.71	0.089
Educated member in HH	0.030**	0.013	2.25	0.026
Maize area (hectare)	2.423***	0.193	12.57	0.000
Livestock holding (LSU)	0.004	0.006	0.7	0.482
Foundation seed production^a	0.441***	0.111	3.96	0.000
Extension service^a	0.238**	0.119	1.99	0.048
Training received^a	−0.017	0.074	−0.23	0.815
Membership in cooperative^a	0.146**	0.068	2.14	0.034
Migration^a	−0.263***	0.069	−3.81	0.000
Constant	8.278***	0.22	37.68	0.000
Observations	182
F (11, 170)	23.87***
R ²	0.607
Adj R ²	0.582

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

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