Adoption and Impact of the Maize Hybrid on the Livelihood of the Maize Growers: Some Policy Insights from Pakistan

Table 3

Determinants of the hybrid adoption (probit estimates).

Variable	Coefficient	t-values
Demographic and household
Age of the farmer	–0.01	2.23
Family size	0.01	1.70
Family system (dummy)	0.02	1.83
Human capital
Education	0.01	2.45
Farm and household assets
Farmer status (dummy)	0.02	2.56
Land owned (in acres)	0.02	2.86
Own tractor (dummy)	0.01	2.57
Own car (dummy)	0.02	1.44
Own televion (dummy)	–0.02	–1.38
Access to infrastructure/institutions
Metal road (dummy)	–0.03	–1.55
Agriculture extension (dummy)	0.02	2.04
Location (province)
Punjab (dummy)	0.05	2.71
Sindh (dummy)	–0.02	–1.45
KPK (dummy)	0.03	2.01
Constant	0.031	1.42
R-square	0.37
LR-chi square	128.34
Prob > chi square	0.000
Total number of observations	822

Note. Results are significant at , , 1, 5 and 10 percent levels respectively.