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Determining farmers' willingness to pay for irrigation water in the Alentejo region (Southern Portugal) by residual value method
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This paper aims to determine farmers’ willingness to pay for irrigation water, using the
residual value method, for the most representative crops at six Irrigation Communities from the
Alentejo region, southern Portugal. The main objective of this assessment was to determine the value
that farmers would be able to pay for the water to irrigate different crops at different locations, and to
show that this approach can be used to provide information about farming economic sustainability
and provide support on if crop prices need to be revised or if a national policy should be conceived
to cover for farming costs. The results show that vegetables and fruit trees have the highest Residual
Value ofWater (RVW), while Wheat, Sunflower, Fodder crops, Semi-intensive Olive Orchards and
Rice tend to have an RVW lower than the current variable irrigation water price. The results also show
that, while, for Melon, Tomato, Onion, Super-high-density Olive Orchards, Peach and Almonds, both
yields and price may decrease significantly, allowing one to save for faming inputs, Sunflower and
Rice would require an increase in yields or prices to cover for the irrigation water price
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residual value method willingness to pay irrigation communities irrigated crops
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Rodrigues, G.C.; da Silva, F.G.; Coelho, J.C. Determining Farmers’Willingness to Pay for IrrigationWater in the Alentejo Region (Southern Portugal) by the Residual Value Method. Agronomy 2021, 11, 142
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MDPI