Determinants of Sesame Market Supply in West Omo and Bench Sheko Zones, Southwest Ethiopia

Table 4

OLS estimation of determinants of quantity supply of sesame (log).

Variables	Coefficients	Std. error
Constant	−0.287	0.197
Sex	−0.101	0.067
Total livestock unit	0.221	0.057
Sesame farming experience (years)	0.016	0.006
Cooperative member	0.212	0.050
Family size	−0.026	0.013
Education	−0.013	0.010
Land under sesame (ha)	0.424	0.053
Annual off-farm income (log)	0.023	0.006
Amount of credit received (log)	0.004	0.005
Training participation	0.519	0.058
Distance to nearest market (kms)	−0.006	0.002
Frequency of extension contact	0.014	0.015
Number of observations	270
F (12, 257)	41.20
Prob > F
R-squared	0.6580
Adj R-squared	0.6420

Own computation result, 2018. Note. The dependent variable-is a log of the quantity of sesame supplied to the market. ^,Significant at 1% and 5% significance levels, respectively.