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Table 5 Determinants of adoption of improved pigeonpea- Marginal effects

From: Determinants of agricultural technology adoption under partial population awareness: the case of pigeonpea in Malawi

Variables

ATE corrected

Classical adoption

 

Marginal effect

SE

Marginal effect

SE

Gender of head (1 = Male, 0 = Otherwise)

−0.282**

0.139

−0.042

0.035

Age of head (yrs)

0.048**

0.023

−0.001

0.004

The square of age

0.000

0

0

0

Education of head (yrs)

0.030

0.016

0.001

0.004

Household size

−0.007

0.113

0.019

0.028

Distance to the village market

0.006

0.03

−0.006

0.006

Distance to the agricultural office

−0.016

0.017

−0.008**

0.004

Membership is a faith group (1 = yes, 0 = no)

−0.276**

0.119

−0.04

0.031

Membership in farmer club (1 = yes, 0 = no)

0.223

0.193

0.081

0.074

Number of years lived in village

−0.007

0.004

0.001

0.001

The value of assets (MK)

0.002

0.042

0.015

0.009

The Land holding size (ha)

−0.033

0.06

0.001

0.02

Access to credit

.410***

0.11

0.146**

0.045

Balaka

0.359

0.251

0.289**

0.106

Thyolo

−0.351

0.189

0.059

0.05

Number of interviews

152

 

440

 

Pseudo R2

0.4121

 

0.3827

 

LR Chi 2

73.9007

 

72.314

 

AIC

156.2294

 

269.215

0.05

  1. Source: ICRISAT Treasure Legumes/TLII Study (April- May 2008)
  2. Key: * significant at 10 %, ** significant at 5 % and *** significant at 1 %