Impacts of water supply uncertainty and storage on efficient irrigation technology adoption

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Bhaduri, Anik
Manna, Utpal
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2014
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In the framework of a stochastic dynamic programming model, the paper investigates the impact of water supply uncertainty and storage at farm level on adoption of efficient irrigation technologies under a flexible water price regime. We find that even a flexible water pricing cannot guarantee higher adoption of efficient irrigation technology in all cases. Results of the paper indicate that if a farmer invests in water storage capacity, then the value of efficient usage of water increases, and the rate of adoption of efficient irrigation technology will be higher. It establishes a complementarity relationship between investments in storage capacity and adoption of efficient irrigation technology. The relationship becomes stronger with increasing variance in water supply. In a situation without any option to store water at the farm level, we find a negative relationship between investment in efficient irrigation technology and water variability. However, numerical analysis results suggest that a risk averse farmer may invest more in efficient irrigation only if the variance in water supply is very high.

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Natural Resource Modeling

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27

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1

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© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Impacts of water supply uncertainty and storage on efficient irrigation technology adoption, Natural Resource Modeling, Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 1-24, 2014, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/nrm.12016. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)

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