Modeling farm-level adoption of deficit irrigation using Positive Mathematical Programming

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1785-1791

  Cortignani, Raffaele ^a   Severini, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Farmers behaviour; Irrigated agricultural; Water saving policies

Indexed keywords

CROP GROWTH MODEL; DEFICIT IRRIGATION; EUROPEAN UNION; FARMERS BEHAVIOUR; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURAL; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; IRRIGATED CROPS; MARKET CONDITION; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; POTENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES; SIMULATION RESULT; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER COSTS; WATER POLICIES; WATER SAVING POLICIES; WATER SERVICE;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; COSTS; CROPS; IRRIGATION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROFITABILITY; SIMULATORS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN UNION; GROWTH MODELING; IRRIGATION; MARKET CONDITIONS; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70349232205     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2009.07.016     Document Type: Article

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