Farzan Narabi, F. (2014) Measuring the willingness to pay of farmers for groundwater using contingent valuation method (a case study of jir oft county). Masters thesis, university of zabol.
|
Text
Measuring the willingness to pay of farmer s for groundwater using.pdf Download (828kB) | Preview |
Abstract
The necessity of recognizing and utilizing ground water resources com as this source forms the 90 percent of total water.Nowadays, among the part which consume water the principle water usage is on agriculture. Therefore, in order to use water, scientific and appropriate management should be considered.Pricing water is one of political tools to increase water efficiency, decrease water demands, irrigation management and costs return.Based on principles of water pricing water price should reflect cost opportunity, while water price largely depends on farmers’ willingness to pay for water in view of possible income.In this study contingent valuation method (CVM) is used to estimste willingess to pay for groundwater.Required data is obtained from a random sample of jiroft’s farmers.The data are collected with random sampling method and questionnaires.The 12nd version of STATA software package is used to estimate regression.Result show that willingness to pay for each square meter is 65.87 Tomans. Willingness to pay is related indirectly to the number of family members and field area and is related directly to farmers income and cultivation variability
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Jirof county, Groundwater, Water pricing, Willingness to pay, Contingent valuation. |
| Subjects: | S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) |
| Depositing User: | admin admin1 admin2 |
| Date Deposited: | 22 May 2017 06:04 |
| Last Modified: | 22 May 2017 06:04 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uoz.ac.ir/id/eprint/1347 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
