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Ransom and Paudyal Table 1. Selected features of farm households in Dolakha and Dailekh districts of Nepal, 2000. Dolakha Dailekh Farm size (ha)* 0.68 0.98 Maize area (ha) 0.30 0.37 Bari area (ha)* 0.29 0.51 Household size (no.)* 5.9 7.6 Age of Household head (yrs) 47 47 Literacy rate HH (%) 45 22 Income from grain sales (NRs)** 1426 735 Maize sold (kg)** 4.0 13.4 Distance to input market (km)* 5.1 13.7 Contact with extension 18 10 (%) *, ** Indicates a significant t-test for District at the 1% and 5% levels, respectively. The t-test was performed only on quantitative variables. Table 2. Level of adoption of yield enhancing maize technologies in Dolakha and Dailekh districts in Nepal, 2000. (%)** Treatments Dolakha Dailekh Use of FYM (%) 100 100 Rate of FYM (kg ha -1 ) 7,435 7,645 Use of fertilizer (%)** 98 58 Rate of N fertilizer (kg ha -1 )** 37 17 Rate of P fertilizer (kg ha -1 ) 1
Soil fertility in the hills of Nepal Table 3. Maximum likelihood estimates of Logit function for adoption of fertilizers in the hills of Nepal. Variables Coefficie nt Standard error Marginal effect Constant 0.59 1.11 0.03 Bari area ha -1.03 0.77 -0.05 Khet area ha* 1.53 0.90 0.08 Plot size ha/plot -3.37 2.88 -0.17 Household labor (No.)* 0.36 0.19 0.02 Income from crops Rs '000 0.13 0.13 0.01 Livestock holding (No)*** -0.55 0.19 -0.03 Years since OPV cultivated first** 0.30 0.15 0.02 Literacy of household head (dummy)** 1.36 0.58 0.07 Dolakha District (dummy) *** 3.28 0.82 0.17 Contacted extension personnel (dummy) 1.53 1.27 0.08 Hired labor (Dummy) 0.61 0.58 0.03 Near the market (Dummy)*** 2.04 0.84 0.10 Household head works in the farm (dummy) -0.49 0.92 -0.03 Caste (dummy) -0.43 0.49 -0.02 Log likelihood function (unrestricted) -62.76 Log likelihood function (restricted) -109.4 Likelihood ratio for chi-square*** 93.27 Goodness of fit (pseudo-R 2 ) 0.43 Cases correctly predicted 87% Number of observations 206 ***, ** and * indicate significant at 1, 5 and 10%, respectivel. - 235 -
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