Determinants of the Application of Economic Means to Recycle Yellow Corn Crop Wastes in Iraq

This paper aims to study the impact of the determinants of applying economic means to recycle yellow corn crop residues in Iraq. Data were collected by designing a structured questionnaire from a sample of 300 yellow corn farmers in Babylon Governorate. The variable of the farmer's desire to recycle agricultural waste optimally was described as a dependent variable, while the independent variables are a set of socio-economic factors of the farmers in the research sample, including the age of the farmer, educational level, number of individuals, degree of knowledge of the existence of agricultural crop residues, degree of cultural openness, degree of willingness to participate in recycling agricultural waste, degree of willingness to bear risks for recycling waste, the availability of agricultural machinery and equipment related to recycling plant waste, agricultural experience, and area planted with the crop. The ordinal logistic regression model was used to analyze the study data, because the dependent variable is a qualitative variable that contains more than two categories and these categories are ordinal. The estimated results indicated that the willingness to optimally recycle maize waste in the study area is significantly affected by the age of the farmer, educational level, cultural openness, risk factor, availability of machinery, farmer experience, and farm area.