'The Value of Irrigation Water Used For Land Reclamation: A Comment

C. E. Finney
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The Pakistan Development Review, 1968, vol. 8, issue 4, 626-631

Abstract: In their article on the economics of water use on saline and alkali lands, published in the Spring 1968 issue of the Pakistan Development Review, Ch. Muhammed Rafiq, M. Alim Mian, and R. Brinkman emphasize the very low economic returns from water used to reclaim saline and alkaline land. It is conclusively shown that where water is scarce it is far better utilized for raising the intensity of cropping on the existing cultivated area. The authors also contend that the reclamation of poor saline-alkali land for agriculture is uneconomic or marginal for the private person, even at concessional water rates.

Date: 1968
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