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Table 7 Factors affecting teff commercialization of cluster farming participants and non-participants

From: Impact of cluster farming on smallholder farmers teff commercialization in Ethiopia

Variables

Teff commercialization by participation status

Participant

Non-participant

Sex of respondents

0.0200 (0.083)

0.0569 (0.117)

Educational status

−0.0322 (0.036)

−0.0560 (0.042)

Age of respondents

0.0009 (0.002)

0.0003 (0.002)

Household size

0.0084 (0.007)

0.0180 (0.010) *

Landholding

0.0429 (0.014) ***

0.0173 (0.019)

Log (On-farm income)

−0.0404 (0.029)

0.0564 (0.029) *

Off-farm income participation

0.0876 (0.037) **

0.0865 (0.048) *

Neighbor participation in cluster farming

−0.0308 (0.038)

0.1230 (0.053) **

Access to teff storage

0.0521 (0.042)

0.0039 (0.050)

Amhara region

0.3140 (0.066) ***

0.5240 (0.074) ***

Oromia region

0.1950 (0.063) ***

0.3630 (0.067) ***

SNNP region

0.1650 (0.067) **

0.2500 (0.076) ***

Constant term

0.5410 (0.292) *

−0.6840 (0.336) **

Independence of equations test using log-likelihood ratio test = 4.06**

  1. ***, ** and * are significance levels at p < 0.01, p < 0.05 and p < 0.1, respectively