The role of variety attributes in the uptake of new hybrid bananas among smallholder rural farmers in central Uganda

Table 4 Determinants of HBVs adoption (dependent variable = number of HBVs mats)

Explanatory variables	Coefficient	Marginal effects
Explanatory variables	Coefficient	Probability of adoption	Intensity of adoption
Sex of farmer (1 = female)	25.81*(16.21)	0.124	7.545
Education of farmer	− 5.608** (2.245)	− 0.027	− 1.639
Total household size	6.073* (3.258)	0.029	1.775
Involvement in banana research activities^	1.865 (18.83)	0.009	0.545
Access to information^	3.529 (20.08)	0.017	1.032
Membership to farmer groups^	− 0.413 (19.07)	− 0.002	− 0.121
Household interaction with other actors	0.568* (0.295)	0.003	0.166
Experience with HBVs	− 6.005** (2.319)	− 0.029	− 1.755
Non-farm income	0.285 (0.772)	0.001	0.083
Land allocated to other crops^a	4.021 (3.012)	0.019	1.175
Source of planting materials
Research institutions	192.6*** (37.19)	0.922	56.295
Fellow farmer	131.5*** (28.81)	0.630	38.441
Community leader	157.7*** (35.33)	0.755	46.108
Other sources^b	116.6*** (29.55)	0.558	34.080
Variety attributes
Production traits related index^c	40.90*** (10.07)	0.196	11.956
Agronomic traits related index^c	− 7.545 (6.076)	− 0.036	− 2.206
Consumption attribute related index^c	18.22*** (6.758)	0.087	5.326
Constant	− 160.8*** (39.94)
Observations	242
Pseudo R²	0.1537
Chi²	0.0000

^{^} Dummy variable; ^alogarithm; ^bother sources such as NGOs, Extension, NAADS, input suppliers; ^c indices; standard errors in parentheses; ***, ** and * indicate statistical significance level at 1%, 5% and 10%, respectively

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