Determinants of Smallholder Farmers’ Participation in Improved Sheep Production: The Case of Doyogena District, Kembata Tembaro Zone, Southern Ethiopia
Table 7
The results of the binary logit model.
Variable
(B)
S.E
Wald statistics
Sig. Level
Exp (B)
Household labor in ME
2.49
0.679
13.51
0.001
12.061
Age of the rural farm household head (AG)
−1.243
0.589
4.456
0.035
3.466
Sex of the household head (SEX)
−0.242
1.092
0.049
0.824
1.274
Frequency of extension contact (FDC)
0.019
6
11.552
0.001
1.019
Education level of household head (EDU)
0.395
0.322
1.501
0.220
1.484
Membership of cooperatives (MSC)
3.082
1.147
7.215
0.007
21.802
Size of land in hectares (LAND SZ)
3.377
1.171
8.324
0.004
29.283
Credit participation (CP)
2.305
1.119
4.24
0.039
10.026
Farm income (FI)
0.000
0.000
0.705
0.401
1.000
Distance from market (DTNMC)
0.330
1.173
0.079
0.779
1.391
Off-farm income (OFI)
0.002
0.001
8.596
0.003
1.002
Access to animal health service (AHS)
5.821
0.606
5.537
0.217
333.309
Number of Obs. = 144; ; Nagelkerke R Square = 78.947. Notes: Exp (B) shows the predicted changes in odds for a unit increase in the predictor; and significant at 5%, and 1% levels (source: computed from own survey data, 2018).
