Production, post-harvest management and gender dynamics among smallholder peanut farmers in Haiti

Table 4 Probit model on aflatoxin knowledge and the use of tarp for drying

	Aflatoxin knowledge		Use of tarp
	Coef.	Std. Err.	Coef.	Std. Err.
Aflatoxin knowledge			− 0.50	0.34
Female household head	0.25	0.23	0.14	0.27
Northeast	1.93***	0.25	− 3.85***	0.58
Wife makes decisions	− 0.96**	0.43	0.48	0.35
Peanut production (thousand kg)	0.42**	0.03	0.76*	0.598
Saved seed from last season	0.34	0.23	− 0.88**	0.35
Sorts all bad peanuts	0.19	0.24	1.49***	0.32
Joint decisions	− 0.26	0.24	0.44*	0.26
Farming experience (years)	0.02*	0.01	0.002	0.01
Remittances from abroad	0.55**	0.26	0.86**	0.36
Works with an organization	1.21***	0.19	0.25	0.30
Peanut consumption (kg/year)	0.04**	0.02	− 0.05**	0.02
Primary education	− 0.06	0.22	− 0.001	0.28
Secondary education	0.15	0.28	− 0.23	0.31
College education	0.50	0.59	0.85	0.76
Other education	0.98	0.72	0.09	0.92
Number of adults	0.18	0.22	− 0.07	0.26
Number of children	− 0.03	0.05	0.04	0.06
Other jobs	0.31	0.28	0.70**	0.31
Constant	− 2.87	0.56	− 0.31	0.60
N	378		378
	LR Chi²(18) = 236.4		LR Chi²(19) = 315.7
	Prob > Chi² = 0.0000		Prob > Chi² = 0.0000
	Pseudo-R² = 0.4858		Pseudo-R² = 0.6047

***, **, *, mean significant at the 1 percent, 5 percent and 10 percent level, respectively

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