Impacts of Off-Farm Employment on Irrigation Water Efficiency in North China

Impacts of Off-Farm Employment on Irrigation Water Efficiency in North China

This paper examines the impacts of off-farm employment on irrigation water efficiency (IWE) with a set of household level data collected in Hebei Province in North China. A major finding is that households with higher shares of laborers working off-farm locally seem to achieve higher IWEs. The effec...

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Main Authors: Ning Yin, Qiuqiong Huang, Zhihai Yang, Yapeng Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-10-01
Series:Water
Subjects:
local off-farm employment
migration
irrigation water efficiency
groundwater
North China
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/8/10/452

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