Cropping Systems: Applications, Management and Impact

Table 6. MNL results of factors influencing female cassava farmers’ choice of adaptation strategies in the study area

Independent

variables

Mulching and soil

conservation

Planting covers crops and

trees

Use of acclimated crop

varieties

Changing planting and

harvest time

No adaptation

Coefficient P-level Coefficient P-level Coefficient P-level Coefficient P-level Coefficient P-

level

Cassava farm size 0.198 0.164 - 0.189 0.3048 - 0.193 - 0.400 0.018 0.642 - 0.048 0.742

Cassava farm

income

• 2.261 0.245 0.081** 0.000 4.024 0.298 1.156 0.392 4.002 0.0648

Land ownership 0.368 1.000 - 11.22*** 0.000 - 26.12 0.666 - 12.32 ...... 12.16*** 0.000

Cassava farming

experience

0.302 0.873 - 1.889 0.723 - 0.773 0.873 1.648 0.723 - 2.21 0.691

Access to credit 1.008 0.228 3.06 0.032 3.46 0.044 1.881 0.041 2.31 0.004
Constant - 1.2468 1.000 12.243 0.000 2.014 0.842 12.686 0.000 13.742 0.000
Diagnostics Irrigation system
Base category 18.46
LR chi square 36.32
Nagelkerke 0.2001
Source: Computed from field survey, 2015.
, , = significant at 1, 5 and 10% probability level respectively.