Table 4 Determinants of HBVs adoption (dependent variable = number of HBVs mats)
Explanatory variables | Coefficient | Marginal effects | |
|---|---|---|---|
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 cropsa | 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 sourcesb | 116.6*** (29.55) | 0.558 | 34.080 |
Variety attributes | |||
 Production traits related indexc | 40.90*** (10.07) | 0.196 | 11.956 |
 Agronomic traits related indexc | − 7.545 (6.076) | − 0.036 | − 2.206 |
 Consumption attribute related indexc | 18.22*** (6.758) | 0.087 | 5.326 |
 Constant | − 160.8*** (39.94) |  |  |
 Observations | 242 |  |  |
 Pseudo R2 | 0.1537 |  |  |
 Chi2 | 0.0000 |  |  |