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Table 4 Adoption regression results

From: Adoption of complementary climate-smart agricultural technologies: lessons from Lushoto in Tanzania

Explanatory variables

Multivariate probit estimates

Univariate probit estimates

Crop diversification

Fertilizer

Pesticide/herbicide

Crop diversification

Fertilizer

Pesticide/herbicide

Household characteristics

 Age of household head

− 0.005 (0.002)**

− 0.001 (0.002)

− 0.003 (0.002)

− 0.004 (0.002)**

− 0.001 (0.002)

− 0.003 (0.02)

 Gender of household head

0.05 (0.08)

0.16 (0.07)**

0.21 (0.069)***

0.04 (0.08)

0.18 (0.07)***

0.23 (0.07)***

 Education of household head

− 0.01 (0.01)

0.01 (0.01)

− 0.02 (0.01)**

-0.01 (0.01)

− 0.001 (0.01)

− 0.02 (0.01)**

 Household size

0.04 (0.01)**

0.03 (0.01)**

0.03 (0.014)**

0.04 (0.015)**

0.03 (0.01)**

0.03 (0.01)**

Household Socio-economic factors

 Importance of crop farming

0.03 (0.02)

-0.01 (0.02)

0.0002 (0.02)

0.02 (0.02)

− 0.01 (0.02)

− 0.0001 (0.07)

 Importance of livestock

0.01 (0.03)

-0.03 (0.02)

− 0.05 (0.03)*

0.01 (0.03)

− 0.03 (0.02)

− 0.05 (0.03)**

 Land size

0.10 (0.03)***

0.06 (0.03)**

0.09 (0.03)***

0.11 (0.03)***

0.06 (0.03)**

0.09 (0.03)***

 Income

0.01 (0.01)

0.01 (0.007)*

− 0.00 (0.01)

0.01 (0.01)

0.01 (0.007)*

− 0.001 (0.007)

 Social capital

− 0.01 (0.07)

0.08 (0.07)

0.09 (0.067)

− 0.01 (0.07)

0.08 (0.07)

0.1 (0.07)

 Access to credit

0.02 (0.09)

− 0.01 (0.09)

0.001 (0.09)

0.03 (0.09)

− 0.02 (0.09)

− 0.01 (0.08)

 Received weather information

0.21 (0.08)***

0.05 (0.07)

0.14 (0.067)**

0.22 (0.08)***

0.04 (0.07)

0.13 (0.07)**

 Previous use of fertilizer

 

0.17 (0.07)**

  

0.22 (0.08)***

 

\({\rho }_{12}\)

0.44 (0.1)***

     

\({\rho }_{13}\)

0.47 (0.09)***

     

\({\rho }_{23}\)

0.66 (0.07)***

     

 Likelihood ratio test

\({x}^{2}\left(34\right)=88.75\)

\(Prob>{x}^{2}=0.0000\)

   

 Number of observations

258

     
  1. The results show adoption propensities. Standard errors are in parentheses
  2. *, **, and *** indicate significance at 10%, 5% and 1%, respectively