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have merged the information from both the villages and then estimated the logit regression.
Farmers who attached more importance to the problems of soil degradation assume the
value I and 0 otherwise.
The results suggest that in Hagedal, the migrant farmers from Andhra Pradesh with timely
availability of credit and better non-farm income are more likely to adopt timely
management strategies. Andhra Pradesh farmers were traditionally paddy growers. Because
of their long experience in paddy cultivation they are aware of the impacts of
monocropping on soil and hence they are more likely to adopt the management strategies
than the native farmers who had little experience. Farmers who got timely credit could
access fertilizers and soil amendments like gypsum and zinc unlike the farmers who could
not get timely credit. Hence, they are more likely to adopt management strategies. The
Kissan Credit Card Scheme introduced by the government in 1998-99, as an innovative
scheme to facilitate easy credit to the farmers, has not yet gained popularity in the village.
Farmers, therefore, mainly depend on private moneylenders. Farmers with an increase in
non-farm income are more likely to divert the income into management strategies so as to
enhance their production. The other variables, except TFM, have the expected signs
although they turned out to be statistically not significant.
Table 6.5: LOl!;it Estimates of the Likeh 'h ood 0 fAd ~tlOn 0 fM anagemen t St ra t egles .
Variable
I
Gundur
Hagedal
Coefficient Z-statistic Coefficient Z-statistic
Cattle (number) 0.946*** 1.885 0.209
1.322
Factor use (dummy) 2.529*** I. 719 0.442
0.679
Experience (years) 0.19*** 1.717 0.0004 0.018
Credit (dummy) 0.103 0.071 0.983*** 1.652
Non-farm/farm 0.442 0.435 1.662*** 1.693
Education (years) -0.311 -1.466 0.044
0.667
TFM (numbers) -0.379 -I. 505 -0.032 -0.496
Mother tongue (dummy) -2.318 -1.545 -1.094* -2.489
Chi-square 44.903*
28.316*
Predictability 87.2%
73.9%
WUA 0.961** Z-statistic 2.94
• SIgnificance al 1% .
•• Significance at 5% .
••• Signitlcance at IO'Yo. .
Factor use ~ Capacity to use faclors like labor, tractor. etc. I tor yes and 0 for no.
Credit ~ Timely availability of credit (I for yes. 0 for 110).
Non farmlfarm ~ Non farm income as a ratio of farm income.
TFM ~ Number of members in the family.
Mother Tongue ~ I for Telugu, 2 for Kannada, and 3 for Urdu.
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