Impact of Irrigation Ecology on Rice Production Efficiency in Ghana

Table 7

Estimates of the endogenous treatment effect model of impact of irrigation ecology on technical efficiency.

	Technical Efficiency		Irrigation Ecology
Variables	Coef.	Std. Err.	Coef.	Std. Err.
Improved seed	-0.027	0.017
Gender	-0.006	0.019	-0.17723	0.37695
Age	0.001	0.000	-0.00236	0.00831
Educational level	-0.002	0.001	-0.02381	0.01787
Farmer experience	-0.001	0.000	-0.01053	0.00866
Wealth of farm HH	0.000	0.000	5E-05	1.5E-05
Household Size	0.001	0.001	-0.03129	0.02902
Total HH arable land	0.000	0.002	0.02266	0.03297
Rice farm size	0.004	0.003	-0.09362	0.063848
FBO Membership	-0.017	0.008	-0.06097	0.17115
Fertilizer			0.00091	0.00054
Seed			0.0016	0.00101
Labour			0.02072	0.01074
1. Irrigation ecology	0.048	0.021
_cons	0.840	0.033
/athrho	-0.46942	0.207234
/lnsigma	-2.706	0.061
rho	-0.438	0.168
sigma	0.067	0.004
lambda	-0.029	0.013
Log likelihood	261.944
Wald test χ^2	4.95
LR test of independent equations χ^2 3.84

1% significance level; 5% significance level; 10% significance level.