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

Table 4

Number of hectares under hybrid (CLAD estimates).

Variables	Coefficient	t-values
Demographic and household
Age of the farmer	0.02	1.84
Family size	0.03	1.71
Joint family system (dummy)	0.01	1.43
Human capital
Education	0.01	2.36
Farm and household asset
Tenancy (farmer status) (dummy)	–0.01	–1.32
Land owned (acres)	0.11	2.49
Own tractor (dummy)	0.04	2.34
Own tubewell (dummy)	–0.17	–1.23
Own zt drill (dummy)	0.03	1.91
Own car (dummy)	0.01	2.16
Own television (dummy)	0.01	2.04
Access to infrastructure and institutions
Access to basic health unit (dummy)	–0.03	–1.26
Access to agricultural extension (dummy)	0.02	2.65
Location (province)
Punjab (dummy)	0.03	1.78
Sindh (dummy)	0.01	1.27
KPK (dummy)	0.02	2.41
Constant	0.03	2.12
R-square	0.53
LR-chi square	286.34
Prob > chi square	0.000
Total number of observations	822

Note. Results are significant at , , 1, 5 and 10 percent levels respectively. CLAD stands for the censored least absolute deviation model.