Open AccessEconomic Value of Irrigation Water: Evidence from a Punjab Canal
Author(s) -
Ijaz Hussain,
Maqbool Hussain Sial,
Zakir Hussain,
Waqar Akram
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the lahore journal of economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1811-5446
pISSN - 1811-5438
DOI - 10.35536/lje.2009.v14.i1.a3
Subject(s) - irrigation , water resource management , environmental science , residual , imputation (statistics) , productivity , mathematics , agricultural economics , agricultural engineering , statistics , economics , agronomy , engineering , macroeconomics , algorithm , biology , missing data
This study is based on data from a cross sectional survey of 120farms located along the Mithaluck irrigation canal in central Punjab. Thedata collected were analyzed using (i) the residual imputation method, and(ii) the change in net income method, and applied to a linear programmingmodel to estimate the value productivity of irrigation water. Returns toirrigation varied by farm size and location on the canal, but weregenerally found to be very high relative to the estimated delivery cost ofirrigation water. The results of this study could prove useful in determiningthe economic feasibility of various resources for supplementing water andimproving delivery and application efficiencies.