Impact of improved beehives technology adoption on honey production efficiency: empirical evidence from Southern Ethiopia

Table 3 Maximum likelihood estimates of stochastic frontier model

Input variables	Coefficients	Std.	p value
Constant	0.674**	0.146	0.000
Number hive (ln)	0.145***	0.028	0.000
Lab our use in (man-day) (ln)	0.042	0.057	0.468
Type of beehive used	0.488***	0.071	0.000
Bee forage cultivation (ln)	0.077	0.048	0.106
Proximity to natural forest	− 0.139**	0.037	0.000
Supplement used (ln)	0.004	0.025	0.880
*Inefficiency variables*
Constant	− 1.049	1.329	0.809
Sex household head (Hh)	0.741	0.536	0.345
Household size	0.106	0.066	0.109
Beekeeping experience of Hh	0.153*	0.085	0.071
Education level of Hh	− 0.081***	0.025	0.002
Cooperative member	− 2.856***	0.470	0.000
Distance to market	1.305	0.585	0.126
Participations in demonstration	− 1.684***	0.496	0.001
Extension contact per year	− 0.042**	0.019	0.034
Total income (ln)	0.236	0.441	0.592
Sigma square	0.153***		0.002
Gamma	0.435**		0.032
Log likelihood	− 213.888

ISSN: 2048-7010