Journal
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
Volume 127, Issue -, Pages 21-28Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.08.010
Keywords
Agricultural water; Shadow price; Price elasticity of demand; China
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Funding
- Grant for Collaborative Innovation Center for Energy Economics and Energy Policy [1260-Z0210011]
- Xiamen University [1260-Y07200]
- China National Social Science Fund [15ZD058]
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Based on stochastic nonparametric envelopment of data, this paper estimates the shadow prices of agricultural water and the technical efficiencies, using an input-output data of 30 provincial units in Mainland China from 2002 to 2012. The results show that the average shadow price estimates for agricultural water range between 2.57 yuan/m(3) and 3.88 yuan/m(3); the estimated price elasticity of agricultural water is 0.12, and that improving technical efficiencies of the agricultural sector has a significant effect on the water demand. That means the prospect of reducing the amount of agricultural water depends on the improvement of technical efficiency and the spread of water-saving irrigation techniques.
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