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Table 8 Probit estimates of propensity score for adoption of improved rice seed and fertilizer combination application

From: The impact of uptake of selected agricultural technologies on rice farmers’ income distribution in Ghana

Variable

Coefficient

Std. err

z-value

Gender

−2.6656

0.9370

−2.84***

Log_Age

−0.3925

0.4107

−0.96

log_Years_Sch

0.2049

0.0960

2.13**

Marital_Status

−0.2338

0.2009

−1.16

Eco_Active_HH

0.0395

0.0337

1.17

log_Farm_Size

0.1381

0.2276

0.61

Land_Ownership

0.3784

0.2326

1.63

Attend_Training_Prog

0.4365

0.2029

2.15**

Lab_Inten_Imp_Rice_Var

−0.3629

0.2052

−1.77*

Lab_Inten_Fert_Use

−0.3071

0.2316

−1.33

Cap_Inten_Fert_Use

−1.3206

0.2130

−6.20***

Log_seed_cost

−0.0779

0.0464

−1.68*

log_TLU

0.2830

0.0949

2.98***

Log_Hours_Other_Eco_Act

−2.3951

0.3974

−6.03***

Log_Infants_cent

−0.2484

0.1879

−1.32

Log_ Hours_Com_ activities

−0.8428

0.7330

−1.15

Main_Act_Most_Time_Spent

−0.2673

0.2528

−1.06

Location

0.6989

0.2552

2.74***

Income_Other_Crop

0.0006

0.0002

3.18***

Gen_Land_Own

0.0987

0.6431

0.15

Gen_Infants_cent

−1.6011

0.5485

−2.92***

Constant

0.9554

2.2036

0.43

Pseudo-R2

0.5020

  

Log likelihood

−110.5123

  

Observations

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