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Table 8 Factors affecting fertilizer adoption (log kg/ha) (tobit model).

From: Does fertilizer adoption enhance smallholders’ commercialization? An endogenous switching regression model from northern Ethiopia

Variables

 

Head’s gender

− 0.674*** (0.244)

Head’s age

0.009 (0.007)

Head’s education

− 0.739*** (0.209)

Family size

0.217*** (0.066)

Male adult

0.188** (0.099)

Female adult

0.218** (0.108)

Ownland_ha

− 0.125 (0.148)

Distance to farmers’ training center

− 0.247* (0.137)

Distance to district office

0.090 (0.078)

Plot distance

− 0.784*** (0.268)

Previous 3 years rainy season rainfall

− 0.026** (0.011)

Previous 3 years rainy season rainfall variability (std. deviation)

0.011 (0.044)

Plot characteristics

Yes

District fixed effect

Yes

Chi2

191.33

Log-likelihood

− 1177.61

Prob > chi2

0.0000

Uncensored observation

440

Censored observation

186

Total observation

626

  1. ***, **, *refer significant level at 1, 5 and 10%, respectively. Numbers in parenthesis are robust standard 5 errors cluster at household