Heterogeneous seed access and information exposure: implications for the adoption of drought-tolerant maize varieties in Uganda

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 3 Probit estimates of the determinants of exposure, access and affordability of DTMV seed

	Model 1 (exposure)	Model 2 (exposure-seed access)	Model 3 (exposure-seed access at affordable price)
Gender of hh head (1 − m, 0 = f)	0.110	0.048	− 0.015
Years of education	0.000	0.003	0.010*
Age of head of household	− 0.093	− 0.028	− 0.015
Household size	0.015*	0.011	0.012*
Membership in association (1 = yes, 0 = otherwise)	0.056	0.074	0.013
Farm size	− 0.005	− 0.017	0.00
Distance to market	0.002	0.001	0.003
Information sources (reference group: no information received)
Government	0.380***	0.450***	0.278**
NGOs	0.318***	0.268	0.214
Field days	0.372***	0.428***	0.203
Radio	0.006	0.055	− 0.03
Agro-dealers	0.379***	0.366***	0.167
Other farmer	0.365***	0.247***	0.036
Electronic media	0.409***	0.239***	0.120*
Income status (reference group; insufficient need borrowing)
Allows to build savings	0.053	0.111	0.333***
Allows to save	0.057	0.105	0.194**
Income equal expenses	− 0.019	0.043	0.106
Draws from saving	0.047	0.077	0.154
Frequency of drought	− 0.009	− 0.012	− 0.015
Received subsidy (1 = yes, 0 = no)	0.131	0.271**	0.387***
Livestock units	0.033*	0.009	0.018
Eastern	0.296***	0.336***	0.250***
Western	0.360***	0.419***	0.413***
Northern	0.107	0.045	− 0.007
No. of observations	864	864	864
Log likelihood	− 436.97	− 480.80	− 411.13
LR chi-squared	288.46	197.05	153.24
Df	29	29	29
Pseudo R²	0.25	0.17	0.20