Farmers Willingness to Pay for Improving Irrigation Water Supply Services in Wuan Irrigation District of China
The agricultural water market of China is not extremely perfect,and the current standard of irrigation water pricing is somewhat low.Along with the gradual realization of the modernization and rehabilitation of irrigation districts,the level of irrigation water supply services is improving and so how to price irrigation water becomes very important while the users of irrigation water,farmers attitude and willingness are the foundations of water pricing.Taking Wuan Irrigation District as a case study,the aims of this paper are estimation of the farmers willingness to pay (WTP) for improving irrigation water supply services and identifying the factors affecting WTP.The results show that the farmers WTP are distributed in the range of 375～825 RMB/ (hm2· a) and the mean WTP is 633 RMB/ (hm2· a).And four important factors including farmers gross income,the proportion of plant production income,the duty condition and the water supply condition have significant influence on the farmers WTP.By analyzing the relations among the standard of irrigation water pricing,the proportion of supporting farmers and the gross income of water rates,the reasonable water pricing scope is elicited,525～600 RMB/(hm2 · a) in the future three years.Then,some reasons for the possible biases are inspected and some recommendations are put forward.
irrigation water supply services willingness to pay (WTP) irrigation water pricing Wuan Irrigation District
Chen Jing Chen Dan Chu Linlin Chen Xiang
Department of Agricultural Engineering,Hohai University,Nanjing,210098,China Rural Development Inst Department of Agricultural Engineering,Hohai University,Nanjing,210098,China
国际会议
南京
英文
327-333
2006-08-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）