Production and income benefits from improved irrigation efficiency: What is the potential? |
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| Authors: | Mark W Rosegrant Shobha Shetty |
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| Institution: | (1) International Food Policy Research Institute, 1200 Seventeenth Street, NW, 20036-3006 Washington, DC, USA;(2) Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, 14853-7801 Ithaca, NY, USA |
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| Abstract: | The benefits of improved irrigation efficiency on production and income in rice-based irrigation systems is analyzed using a combination of simulation and structural model estimation techniques for five diversion irrigation systems in the Philippines. The results show that increased efficiencies generate substantial production and income benefits. With the limitations on new system development, designing and enforcing appropriate real-time water resource management policies to capture high potential benefits of improved irrigation efficiency should be an increasingly high priority for policy-makers. |
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| Keywords: | econometrics efficiency incomes irrigation Philippines productivity simulation |
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