This paper investigates the impact of the dissemination of modern irrigation systems, i.e. private wells with pumps, on … and thus rely solely on traditional irrigation systems called tank irrigation systems. The analysis is based on a village … and household data set collected in Tamil Nadu, India where tank irrigation systems have been managed collectively for …

available water resources through the adoption o f more efficient irrigation technology and irrigation scheduling. A requirement … and irrigation system application rates in the model. Risk simulation procedures are used to generate an appropriately … flood irrigation farm in the Vaalharts irrigation scheme South Africa to demonstrate the capability of the model to optimize …

-managing organisation for irrigation, in the Bregalnica region of the Republic of Macedonia. While their introduction improved cost recovery …, only modest changes occurred in the cost of irrigation water and many farmers remain indifferent to the WCs. Econometric …, cost recovery rates, farm size and irrigation costs. Membership satisfaction is an important determinant of payment …

In many countries growing water scarcity puts pressure on the irrigation sector, as main consumptive user, to improve …

-2007, and (ii) though irrigation share significantly explains the growth of land productivity, delayed onset increasingly … constrains the role of irrigation. …

Using plot level production data from a nation-wide survey in India, we study the impact of irrigation on crop … cultivating multiple plots of different irrigation status. After household fixed effects and plot characteristics are controlled … for, our estimations show that irrigation has a strong and significant impact on all these outcomes with the dominant …

This paper aims to analyze the effects of climate change on Brazilian agriculture considering irrigation adoption as an … adaptation strategy. Investigation on how climatic variability influences irrigation adoption was performed as well as whether … the choice of irrigation in the first stage and the land values for two types of farmer (irrigators or dryland) in the …

Irrigation induced salinity is a serious problem in many countries around the world. In Australia, this type of … salinity is most pronounced in the valley of the River Murray in South Australia. Location of irrigation enterprises has been … and contrasts two such policies: an irrigation zoning policy, where new irrigation enterprises are only allowed in low …

explicitly models the water demand on sixteen typical farms, for five irrigation technologies, six crops and four livestock …