Impact of Irrigation Ecology on Rice Production Efficiency in Ghana

Table 9

Estimates of the endogenous treatment effect model of impact of irrigation ecology on economic efficiency.

	Economic Efficiency		Irrigation Ecology
Variables	Coef.	Std.	Coef.	Std.
		Err.		Err.
Improved seed	-0.022	0.063
Gender	0.104	0.102	-0.20412	0.37845
Age	0.000	0.002	-0.00242	0.00771
Educational level	0.004	0.005	-0.01636	0.01694
Farmer experience	0.003	0.002	-0.0131	0.008
Wealth of farm HH	0.000	0.000	3.1E-05	1.1E-05
Household Size	-0.003	0.008	-0.02967	0.02774
Total HH arable land	0.005	0.009	0.01808	0.03016
Rice farm size	0.069	0.017	-0.0871	0.05974
FBO Membership	0.018	0.044	-0.03796	0.1604
ISFM Adoption	0.028	0.039
contract farming	0.235	0.039
Fertilizer	2.9E4	0.000	0.00055	0.00046
Seed	-0.001	0.000	0.00159	0.00098
Labour	-0.007	0.002	0.01743	0.00751
1. Irrigation ecology	0.23	0.034
_cons	0.047	0.154	0.109085	0.521881
/athrho	-1.3758	0.232817
/lnsigma	-1.051	0.071
rho	-0.880	0.053
sigma	0.350	0.025
lambda	-0.308	0.039
Log likelihood	-232.204
Wald test χ^2	219.82
LR test of independent equations χ^2 10.05

1% significance level; 5% significance level; 10% significance level.