Irrigation Water Pricing with Hedonic Approach (Case Study Ramhormoz City Farmers)
Subject Areas : watere sciences
Mohammad
Aghapour Sabbaghi
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(Department of Agricultural management , Shoshtar Branch, Islamic azad university, Shoshtar,Iran)
Keywords: valuation, Irrigation Water, Ramhormoz, Hedonic approach,
Abstract :
In the process of economic development with population growth and agricultural development, access to water resources will be necessary. Water as the most scare factor in agricultural production, is the main limiting factor in agricultural activities in the country. These factors motivate the value of water as economic good and also effective tools for water demand. In this research that has been done in 2013-2014, the agricultural water value has been calculated with use of estimates Hedonic function for Ramhormoz farmland. In this study sampling was random and the number of samples was88. According to the results, the economic value of irrigation water in the study area is 43177265 Rials per hectare and per cubic meter is 4544.97 .Also results show that the distance from cities, villages and main roads has a negative impact on the price of agricultural land and soil fertility, well, proximity to the river and the land integration have a positive effect on the price of agricultural land in the study area.
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