Impact of Irrigation Ecology on Rice Production Efficiency in Ghana

Table 8

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

	Allocative Efficiency		Irrigation Ecology
Variables	Coef.	Std.	Coef.	Std.
		Err.		Err.
Improved seed	-0.040	0.060
Gender	0.042	0.093	-0.18091	0.382307
Age	0.001	0.002	-0.00393	0.007909
Educational level	0.006	0.004	-0.01303	0.017019
Farmer experience	0.002	0.002	-0.01424	0.008081
Wealth of farm HH	0.000	0.000	3.34E-05	1.15E-05
Household Size	-0.001	0.007	-0.01883	0.027527
Total HH arable land	0.005	0.008	0.021044	0.030328
Rice farm size	0.035	0.015	-0.08274	0.05944
FBO Membership	0.030	0.041	-0.0174	0.16182
ISFM^3 Adoption	0.026	0.036
Contract Farming	0.254	0.037
Fertilizer	0.000	0.000	0.00055	0.00047
Seed	-0.00043	0.000247	0.00141	0.00098
Labour	-0.005	0.002	0.016	0.00787
1. Irrigation ecology	0.330	0.050	0.015587	0.007868
_cons	0.23829	0.1427	0.057237	0.531055
/athrho	-1.34707	0.289909
/lnsigma	-1.143	0.084
rho	-0.873	0.069
sigma	0.319	0.027
lambda	-0.278	0.044
Log likelihood	-202.687
Wald test χ^2	209.61
LR test of independent equations χ^2 5.03

1% significance level; 5% significance level; 10% significance level.
³Integrated Soil Fertility Management technique