| Fixed effect model | First Difference model | |||
| Independent variables | Statistical significance | economic significance | Statistical significance | economic significance |
| Proximate factors | ||||
| Fuel Wood supply in the prefecture | not significant | 0.0004 | not significant | −0.0009 |
| Quantity of cotton produced in the prefecture | not significant | −0.08 | not significant | 0.05 |
| Volume of wood allowed to cut | not significant | −1.76 | not significant | −4.57 |
| Quantity of maize produced in the prefecture | not significant | 5.82 | Increase | 0.075 |
| Quantity of sorghum produced in the prefecture | not significant | 2.82 | not significant | −0.025 |
| Quantity of rice produced in the prefecture | not significant | 3.81 | not significant | 0.0009 |
| Quantity of beans produced in the prefecture | not significant | 0.06 | not significant | 0.18 |
| Quantity of peanut produced in the prefecture | not significant | 0.61 | not significant | 0.06 |
| Quantity of yam produced in the prefecture | Increase | 0.03 | Increase | 0.023 |
| Quantity of cassava produced in the prefecture | not significant | 0.22 | not significant | 0.01 |
| Underlying factors | ||||
| Minimum wage | not significant | 0.069 | not significant | 0.046 |
| The price of cotton in Togo | not significant | −1.05 | not significant | −5.33 |
| Regional fertilizer supply in cotton production | Decrease | −1.98 | Decrease | −0.25 |
| National fertilizer cost | Increase | 8.56 | Increase | 12.37 |
| Regional pesticide supply in cotton production n | Increase | 1.22 | Increase | 0.01 |
| National pesticide cost | Increase | 3.18 | Increase | 4.73 |
| Fertilizer used in food production in Togo | not significant | −6.96 | Significant | −0.96 |
| Fines from illegal wood cutting | not significant | −2.72 | not significant | −1.96 |
| Socio economic factors | ||||
| Regional number of cotton producers | Increase | 0.08 | Increase | 0.05 |
| Regional number of cotton producer associations | not significant | 3.1 | not significant | 0.63 |