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Allocation of irrigation water to competing crops or to different plots of the same crop is an important issue when water is scarce. This is especially true during peak seasons of demand for irrigation water. Water allocation among competing farm uses has been treated in numerous linear programming studies (Yaron). However the early linear programming (LP) studies have incorporated crop response functions to irrigation and soil moisture only indirectly, usually without rigorous analysis.
Permission to publish this chapter was granted by the American Agricultural Economics Association. The chapter was originally published under a similar title, in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 64(4):681–689, 1982
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Yaron, D., Dinar, A. (2002). Optimal Allocation of Farm Irrigation Water During Peak Seasons. In: Economics of Water Resources The Contributions of Dan Yaron. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 24. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0899-1_8
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