Section 3 (Crop Management)
Section 3 (Crop Management)
Section 3 (Crop Management)
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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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