farmers switch from traditional to modern irrigation technology. …

In this paper we consider a two periods model of cropping using irrigation. The farmer takes two kind of decisions, one … related to the level of investment in irrigation capacity and the other one to the irrigation level in each period. In the … period. Assuming a CARA utility function, we show that taxing the investment may entail an increase in preventive irrigation …

We estimate the irrigation water demand for a season under uncertainty using a dynamic programming model and a crop … to generate the data allowing the estimation of irrigation water demand by a nonparametric procedure. An application …