Determinants of Organic Fertilizer Adoption in Moretna Jeru District, Northern Ethiopia

Table 3

Determinants of adoption decision of organic fertilizer.

Variables	Coefficient and std. err.	Marginal effect and standard error	Variable mean value
Demographic factors
(1) Gender (male = 1)	0.137 (0.509)	0.039 (0.147)	0.766
(2) Age (years)	0.025 (0.019)	0.007 (0.006)	57.354
(3) Educational level
Read and write_2	−0.521 (0.563)	0–.150 (0.164)	0.172
Primary school_3	0.431 (0.479)	0.124 (0.134)	0.026
(4) Off-farm income (ETB)	−0.686 (0.354)	−0.198 (0.096)	0.406
(5) Marital status
Widowed_2	−1.900 (0.808)	−0.547 (0.230)	0.146
Divorced_3	−0.457 (0.599)	0–.132 (0.173)	0.068
(6) Household size	2.458 (0.805)	0.707 (0.247)	1.712
Farm-level factors
(7) Farm size()	2.614 (0.668)	0.753 (0.179)	1.425
(8) Household income (ETB)	−0.669 (1.157)	−0.193 (0.340)	10.202
Fertility (medium)	−0.280 (0.414)	−0.080 (0.119)	0.646
Farm fertility (God)	−1.655 (0.438)	−0.477 (0.128)	0.208
(9) Ownership of land	1.324 (0.594)	0.381 (0.169)	1.401
(10) Tropical livestock unit	1.242 (0.234)	0.358 (0.061)	3.849
Institutional factors
(11) Farm credit	−1.820 (0.449)	−0.524 (0.121)	0.453
(12) Extension contact (hour)	0.611 (0.152)	0.176 (0.038)	3.3125
Constant	−10.345 (12.549)
Observations	192		192

, , and . Log likelihood = −9.9570027; Prob > chi² = 0.0000; Wald chi² [17] = 91.00; pseudo-R² = 0.9219. Source: survey data (2020/21). Note. ETB indicates Ethiopian birr.