Research Article

Effects of Land Fragmentation on Productivity in Northwestern Ethiopia

Table 1

Summary of linear regression result.

VariablesCoefficient -ratio

Dependent variable: land productivity

Average distance of parcels from homestead (minutes)−2.51
Cultivated parcel number−2.39
Average area of cultivated parcels owned (Ha)−125.841.52
Labor intensity (man-days/ha)−0.23−0.45
Oxen power intensity (oxen days/ha)3.19
Age of HH (years)−1.67
Operational capital intensity (ETB/ha)3.13
Constant4.91

0.42

Adjusted 0.38

-ratio

Observation240

Source: our own computation (2016). at less than 10%, 5%, and 1% probability level, respectively.