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DEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS OF INPUT‐OUTPUT RELATIONS FOR IRRIGATION WATER
Author(s) -
Flinn J.C.,
Musgrave Warren F.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
australian journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.683
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-8489
pISSN - 0004-9395
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8489.1967.tb00024.x
Subject(s) - irrigation , production (economics) , agricultural engineering , process (computing) , deficit irrigation , component (thermodynamics) , environmental science , mathematics , water resource management , computer science , irrigation management , economics , agronomy , engineering , microeconomics , biology , operating system , physics , thermodynamics
Recent developments in climatology mean that economists now have a highly acceptable physical theory which can underlie their analysis of the economic aspects of water as an input to the production process, as a source of production instability, and as a major component of error in their estimated crop production functions. This paper presents a model and a procedure for synthesising and analysing irrigation water crop input output relations based on this theory. The importance of time of application of water as well as quantity is shown. Different frequencies of irrigation are optimal at different times of the growing season.