The Economics of Central Luzon Dry Season Irrigation Scheme
This study was undertaken to evaluate the impact of Camiling River Irrigation System (CamRIS) in Central Luzon, Philippines on the total dry season paddy production, the resource use efficiency, the level and distribution of paddy incomes; and to examine the factors which determined the extent o...
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Format: | Thesis |
Language: | English English |
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1984
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Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7998/1/FEP_1984_2_.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7998/ |
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Summary: | This study was undertaken to evaluate the impact of Camiling
River Irrigation System (CamRIS) in Central Luzon, Philippines on the
total dry season paddy production, the resource use efficiency, the
level and distribution of paddy incomes; and to examine the factors
which determined the extent of paddy cultivation by farmers under the
scheme.
Results of the study revealed that the mean area cultivated and
yield per hectare increased significantly under the scheme, hence,
the total area planted, production and cropping intensity.
Nevertheless, the scheme failed to reduce the variability of these
factors among the various sections of CamRIS.
Farmers considered seeds, hired labour and total labour among
other inputs of utmost importance in attaining higher paddy production
under the scheme as only in these inputs that expenditure per hectare
significantly increased. Nevertheless, the paddy net income before
and after the scheme were not significantly different. In addition,
the scheme failed to reduce income inequality among the
farmer-participants as depicted by their almost identical Lorenz curves before and after the scheme and corroborated b y the equal
values of their Gini coefficients of 0.47.
Resource use efficiency analysis revealed that expenditures on
seeds and family labour were adjusted to their optimum values after
the scheme. In contrast to fertilizers which were allocated
efficiently before and after the scheme, expenditure allocations on
chemical in puts for crop protection and hired labour were inefficient
as indicated by their ratios of marginal value products to factor
costs which were significantly less than unity. Thus, reducing the
allocation of these inputs would have increased- their production
efficiencies.
Regression analysis showed that the profitability of dry season
irrigated farming and the availability of family and hired labour were
the major determinants the in farmers' decision to increase paddy
cultivation under the scheme. On the other hand, working capital
carried forward from the wet season, tenure status, non-mechanisation
of land preparation were factors that worked against the farmers to
increase their paddy cultivation. |
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