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Soil fertility in the hills of Nepal<br />

Table 3. Maximum likelihood estimates of Logit function for adoption of fertilizers in the hills of<br />

Nepal.<br />

Variables<br />

Coefficie<br />

nt<br />

Standard<br />

error Marginal effect<br />

Constant 0.59 1.11 0.03<br />

Bari area ha -1.03 0.77 -0.05<br />

Khet area ha* 1.53 0.90 0.08<br />

Plot size ha/plot -3.37 2.88 -0.17<br />

Household labor (No.)* 0.36 0.19 0.02<br />

Income from crops Rs '000 0.13 0.13 0.01<br />

Livestock holding (No)*** -0.55 0.19 -0.03<br />

Years since OPV cultivated first** 0.30 0.15 0.02<br />

Literacy of household head (dummy)** 1.36 0.58 0.07<br />

Dolakha District (dummy) *** 3.28 0.82 0.17<br />

Contacted extension personnel (dummy) 1.53 1.27 0.08<br />

Hired labor (Dummy) 0.61 0.58 0.03<br />

Near the market (Dummy)*** 2.04 0.84 0.10<br />

Household head works in the farm<br />

(dummy) -0.49 0.92 -0.03<br />

Caste (dummy) -0.43 0.49 -0.02<br />

Log likelihood function (unrestricted) -62.76<br />

Log likelihood function (restricted) -109.4<br />

Likelihood ratio for chi-square*** 93.27<br />

Goodness of fit (pseudo-R 2 ) 0.43<br />

Cases correctly predicted 87%<br />

Number of observations 206<br />

***, ** and * indicate significant at 1, 5 and 10%, respectivel.<br />

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