PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS OF WESTERN IRRIGATED CROPS

Noel R. Gollehon, Michael R. Moore and Donald H. Negri

No 270992, 1990 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Vancouver, Canada from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: For two functional forms, this paper reports econometric estimates of product1on functions for thirteen major irrigated crops using a common dataset and a consistent specification of the variables across crops. Estimates of the output elasticity of irrigation water are uniformly highly inelastic for each crop.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Production Economics; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15
Date: 1990-08-05
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.270992

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