Author:
Wu JunJie,Mapp Harry P.,Bernardo Daniel J.
Abstract
AbstractA dynamic model is developed to analyze farmers' irrigation investment and crop choice decisions under alternative water quality protection policies. The model is applied to an empirical example in the Oklahoma High Plains. The choices of crops and irrigation systems and the resulting levels of irrigation, income, and nitrogen runoff and percolation are simulated over a ten-year period. An effluent tax on nitrogen runoff and percolation is shown to be effective in reducing nitrate pollution. The efficacy of cost sharing in adopting modern irrigation technologies and restrictions on irrigation water use depends on soil type. A tax on nitrogen use is shown to be the least effective policy.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Economics and Econometrics,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Reference28 articles.
1. Land Quality, Irrigation Development, and Cropping Patterns in the Northern High Plains
2. The Effects of Pricing Policies on Water Conservation and Drainage
3. An Economic Analysis of Irrigation Investment Alternatives in the Central High Plains.;Earls;J. of Amer. Soci, of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.,1992
Cited by
10 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献