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THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, V.81, # 2, 2024, pp. 30-59

With regards to agricultural training, the finding reveals that an increase in agricultural
training will increase agricultural yield by 0.3%, statistically significant at 1% level
of significance. There is general agreement that training increases productivity, and a
number of literature exist documenting the positive effects of the training on human
capital development. This therefore explains the positive effect of training.
Furthermore, the results show that households who primary activity is agriculture
leads to an increase in crop yield by 6%, statistically significant at 10% level of
significance. The results may therefore mean farmers with agriculture as primary
activity tend to devote their resources to ensure maximum productivity as it is their
main source of livelihood.

Furthermore, the results show that a unit increase in the use of modern agricultural
equipment will increase agricultural production by 7% and 8% in the 2SLS and
control function models respectively. However, the results are statistically
insignificant. The place of residence, access to credit, use of modern agricultural
equipment, cost of fertilizers, use of specialised seeds and household size also presents
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statistically insignificant results. The control function without interaction R reveals
that only 19% of variation in agricultural production is being explained by the
independent variables specified in our model. This may be due to the absence of data
on some observable characteristics of agricultural production that have not been
controlled for in the regression due to unavailability of data, other unobservable
characteristics unknown to the researcher that influence agricultural production such
as soil quality as well as measurement errors both random and systematic.

Women Empowerment Effect on Agricultural Production by Marital Status
Agriculture is one of the most stable jobs one may have though time consuming and
stressful job in Cameroon, hence those involved may always want to marry as their
spouse act as a complement in executing their duties.

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