Farmers' Willingness to pay for irrigation Water: A case of tank irrigation systems in South India

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-18

  Chandrasekaran, Karthikeyan ^a   Devarajulu, Sureshkumar ^a   Kuppannan, Palanisami ^b  

^a TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b South Asia Regional Office   (India)

Author keywords

Economic value; Farmers; Irrigation water; Marginal productivity; Paddy; Sustainability; Tanks; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; PRODUCTIVITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ECONOMIC VALUES; FARMERS; IRRIGATION WATERS; PADDY; TANKS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

IRRIGATION;

EID: 84875929945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w1010005     Document Type: Article

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