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Risk-Return Assessment of Irrigation Decisions in Humid Regions: An Extension

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

Bernard V. Tew
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, Colorado State University
William G. Boggess
Affiliation:
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida

Abstract

The risk effects of irrigation scheduling in a sub-humid climate have been well documented recently using approximations of the variance of net returns. A method to determine the exact variance of net returns assuming only multivariant normality is presented. The approximation technique in contrast to the method presented in this research was shown to have a non-uniform effect on the variance of net returns of each schedule.

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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1984

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