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Table 7 Impact of credit access on cocoa productivity

From: The simultaneous impact of access to credit and cooperative services on cocoa productivity in South-western Nigeria

Variables

Access to credit

Productivity with credit access

Productivity without credit access

Age

0.629*** (3.00)

0.131** (2.04)

0.087** (1.98)

Age2

0.482*** (3.36)

0.425 (0.03)

0.056 (0.31)

Household size

− 0.564*** (− 2.80)

0.878** (2.07)

− 0.778 (− 0.81)

Years of education

0.378 (0.69)

0.382** (2.04)

0.101** (2.27)

Year of experience

0.120 (0.44)

0.135*** (2.69)

0.436 (1.14)

Farm size

0.695*** (3.55)

0.138*** (6.82)

0.090** (2.05)

Gender

0.482 (1.08)

1.310 (0.57)

0.330*** (2.68)

Asset

0.174 (0.51)

1.194*** (2.65)

0.159 (0.70)

Constant

0.166*** (3.01)

3.181*** (5.84)

1.790*** (5.49)

/Ins0

0.336* (1.71)

  

/Ins1

0.898** (1.98)

  

/r0

0.495 (0.48)

  

/r1

1.070 (1.52)

  

Sigma_ 0

1.400** (2.06)

  

Sigma _1

2.455* (1.91)

  

Rho_0

0.458** (2.25)

  

Rho_1

0.492** (2.19)

  

Observations

300

228

99

  1. LR test of Indep. Eqns: Chi2 (2) = 292.73 Prob > Chi2 = 0.000
  2. ***, ** &* represent significance levels at 1%, 5% & 10%, respectively
  3. Source: Field Survey (2018)