From: Road accessibility and agricultural extension services in Malawi
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Variables | Logit | NB |
Age | − 0.012*** | − 0.005 |
(0.004) | (0.003) | |
Female | − 0.042 | − 0.278*** |
(0.143) | (0.101) | |
Married | 0.144 | − 0.008 |
(0.154) | (0.109) | |
Muslim | − 0.284** | − 0.006 |
(0.137) | (0.092) | |
Household size | 0.0482** | 0.022* |
(0.022) | (0.013) | |
Years of schooling | 0.027* | 0.026*** |
(0.015) | (0.009) | |
Farming experience | 0.013*** | 0.010*** |
(0.005) | (0.003) | |
HDDS | 0.094*** | 0.019 |
(0.024) | (0.015) | |
Log of household economic resources | 0.056*** | 0.047*** |
(0.018) | (0.015) | |
Log of cropland size | − 0.031 | 0.001 |
(0.115) | (0.069) | |
Loan access | 0.043 | 0.067 |
(0.139) | (0.075) | |
Off-farm employment | − 0.182 | 0.096 |
(0.125) | (0.085) | |
Communication tools | 0.304*** | 0.210*** |
(0.107) | (0.077) | |
Lead farmer | 0.883*** | 0.304*** |
(0.155) | (0.070) | |
Livestock | 0.248** | 0.073 |
(0.106) | (0.078) | |
Tree | 0.568*** | 0.271*** |
(0.103) | (0.059) | |
Maize | 0.169 | 0.275* |
(0.188) | (0.145) | |
Cereal | − 0.051 | − 0.236** |
(0.153) | (0.100) | |
Tuber | − 0.112 | 0.128 |
(0.161) | (0.086) | |
Bean | 0.370*** | 0.110* |
(0.096) | (0.061) | |
Groundnut | 0.153 | 0.022 |
(0.107) | (0.062) | |
Vegetable | 0.249* | 0.065 |
(0.146) | (0.083) | |
Tobacco | 0.312* | − 0.103 |
(0.170) | (0.095) | |
Risk-averse | − 0.028 | − 0.117* |
(0.100) | (0.065) | |
Farmer Organization | 0.147* | 0.118*** |
(0.084) | (0.039) | |
Difficulty in accessing fertilizer | − 0.075 | − 0.038 |
(0.048) | (0.027) | |
Market | − 0.021 | − 0.052 |
(0.096) | (0.059) | |
Log of distance to paved roads | − 0.204*** | − 0.152*** |
(0.050) | (0.031) | |
Number of extension agents | 0.145** | 0.082** |
(0.063) | (0.037) | |
Number of agricultural projects | − 0.032 | 0.014 |
(0.029) | (0.019) | |
Number of demonstration plots and farm trials | 0.047** | 0.046*** |
(0.022) | (0.013) | |
Feed the future zone of influence | 0.891*** | 0.163** |
(0.113) | (0.075) | |
South Region | − 1.169*** | 0.084 |
(0.230) | (0.130) | |
Central Region | − 1.206*** | 0.101 |
(0.231) | (0.128) | |
Constant | − 1.015** | − 0.662** |
(0.478) | (0.323) | |
\(\mathrm{ln \gamma }\) | − 1.008*** | |
(0.142) | ||
Observations | 2441 | 2441 |