agriculture. Moreover, the new production structure accounts for substitution possibilities between irrigation and other primary …Water and agriculture are intrinsically linked. Water is essential for crop production and agriculture is the largest …-W distinguishes between rainfed and irrigated agriculture and introduces water as an explicit factor of production for irrigated …

Use of water in agriculture has a major driving force behind general water use patterns in the United States. To assess … Battese and Coelli (1995) to estimate a translog production frontier for agriculture at the county level with four inputs …

constrained by access to credit, made up their income loss from agriculture by allocating 4.5-6 times more labor days (equivalent …

government policies, in particular regarding the use of sun power to operate irrigation projects. Researchers have found solar …-power-based irrigation projects to be reliable, sustainable, and cost-effective, with higher rates of return, and recent studies have mostly … electricity from solar-run irrigation pumps (SIPs) across the country with the aim of promoting renewable energy, which further …

agriculture. I find that rainfed maize is sensitive to both temperature and precipitation. This sensitivity is weakened in … irrigated maize suggesting that the use of irrigation reduces not only the dependency of production on direct precipitation but …