Determinants of the competitiveness of smallholder African indigenous vegetable farmers in high-value agro-food chains in Kenya: A multivariate probit regression analysis

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 2 Correlation coefficients of pillars of competitiveness in HVMC from MVP estimation

HVMC competitiveness pillars	Correlation coefficient	Standard error
High-value market and membership of farmers’ group	− 0.0232	0.0548
Credit services and high-value market	0.1092**	0.0579
Extension services and high-value market	− 0.0612	0.0525
Credit services and membership of a farmers’ group	0.0901**	0.0530
Extension services and membership of farmers’ group	0.0927**	0.0467
Extension services and credit services	0.1062**	0.0499

Likelihood ratio test of rho21 = rho31 = rho41 = rho32 = rho42 = rho43 = 0; χ² (6) = 13.416 Prob>χ² = 0.013
**p < 0.05