TY - JOUR
T1 - Valuation and Aspirations for Drip Irrigation in Punjab, Pakistan
AU - Reid Bell, Andrew
AU - Ward, Patrick S.
AU - Ashfaq, Muhammad
AU - Davies, Stephen
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was undertaken as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and facilitated by the Pakistan Strategy Support Program (PSSP) of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) with funding support from PIM and USAID. The authors thank Mr. Omar Majeed and Mr. Khurshid Arshad for their efforts in coordinating and managing data collection.
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PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - Modern drip-irrigation technologies improve water-use efficiency while simultaneously transforming areas that are not otherwise irrigable in practice (too distant or too high to be reached by surface waters). Although drip irrigation is expanding rapidly in India, adoption remains low in neighboring Pakistan. To gain deeper insight into the factors constraining adoption of drip irrigation in Pakistan, a discrete choice experiment framed around the hypothetical subsidized purchase of a drip-irrigation system in four districts within Pakistan's Punjab Province was used. The results show higher valuation of drip systems among new users, which suggests that limited technical support and upstream maintenance facilities are not posing significant barriers to drip-irrigation adoption. It was observed that aspirations for cropping systems under drip were better predictors of farmers' valuation for drip systems than current cropping patterns, implying that a different agricultural landscape might reasonably emerge under more widespread adoption of drip. Both aspirations were observed for high-value crops such as fruits, as well as lower-value crops such as wheat, under drip systems, suggesting a number of ways through which drip irrigation may transform Pakistan's agricultural landscape.
AB - Modern drip-irrigation technologies improve water-use efficiency while simultaneously transforming areas that are not otherwise irrigable in practice (too distant or too high to be reached by surface waters). Although drip irrigation is expanding rapidly in India, adoption remains low in neighboring Pakistan. To gain deeper insight into the factors constraining adoption of drip irrigation in Pakistan, a discrete choice experiment framed around the hypothetical subsidized purchase of a drip-irrigation system in four districts within Pakistan's Punjab Province was used. The results show higher valuation of drip systems among new users, which suggests that limited technical support and upstream maintenance facilities are not posing significant barriers to drip-irrigation adoption. It was observed that aspirations for cropping systems under drip were better predictors of farmers' valuation for drip systems than current cropping patterns, implying that a different agricultural landscape might reasonably emerge under more widespread adoption of drip. Both aspirations were observed for high-value crops such as fruits, as well as lower-value crops such as wheat, under drip systems, suggesting a number of ways through which drip irrigation may transform Pakistan's agricultural landscape.
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U2 - 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001181
DO - 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001181
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85083074338
SN - 0733-9496
VL - 146
JO - Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management - ASCE
JF - Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management - ASCE
IS - 6
M1 - 04020035
ER -