Open sun dried TAVs			Solar dried dried TAVs
Variable	Coefficient	Std. Error	Coefficient	Std. Error
Socio-economic characteristics
Age of household head (years)	−0.020	0.019	0.030	0.020
Gender	−0.923*	0.560	1.239*	0.741
Education in years	−0.025	0.080	0.498	0.386
Household size
Children below 4 years	0.068	0.250	0.016*	0.092
Children between 5 - 14 years	−0.029	0.140	0.543**	0.288
Adults between 15 - 64 years	0.161	0.134	−0.320**	0.161
Adults above 64 years	0.748*	0.429	−0.339	0.150
Household income in us dollars	0.002	0.001	0.034	0.468
Cultivate own land Hactors	0.011	0.054	−0.050	0.057
Cultivate rented land in Hactors	−0.116	0.231	0.130	0.249
Attitudes and perceptions
(market quality attributes)	0.799***	0.232	0.885***	0.267
(product intrinsic qualities)	−0.015	0.197	−0.290	0.214
Climatic characteristics
Prolonged drought	0.194	0.341	−0.256	0.372
Institutional characteristics
Mpwapwa	0.550	0.475	0.710	0.507
Kongwa	0.178	0.418	0.224	0.431
access to information			−7.310***	1.990
No of observations 55 Log likelihood −112.313 Wald ch² 314.99 Prob. > ch² 0.000