Cropping Systems: Applications, Management and Impact

Table 5. MNL results of factors influencing male 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 0.2003 0.191 - 0.184 0.302 - 0.201 - 0.400 0.028 0.733 - 0.079 0.804

Cassava farm

income

• 2.521 0.241 0.092** 0.000 4.722 0.413 1.171 0.386 4.029 0.077

Land owner-ship 0.506 1.000 - 12.82*** 0.000 - 28.41 0.877 - 13.92 ...... 13.52*** 0.000

Cassava farming

experience

0.312 0.765 - 1.988 0.743 - 0.873 0.773 1.65 0.699 - 2.231 0.700

Access to credit 1.0332 0.521 3.14 0.014 3.43 0.046 1.882 0.776 2.441 0.0620
Constant - 1.189 1.000 12.224 0.000 2.022 0.966 15.893 0.000 15.652 0.000
Diagno-stics Irrigation system
Base category 20.646
LR chi square 47.072
Nagel-kerke 0.234
, , = significant at 1, 5 and 10% probability level respectively.
Source: Computed from field survey, 2015.