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| DOI：10.13522/j.cnki.ggps.2019109 |
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| Reforming Agricultural Water Price in Irrigation District in Northwest China: Taking Gunning Irrigation District in Gansu Province as an Example |
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ZHANG Yanxia1, YANG Peiling2*, REN Shumei2, WEI Chenchen2, WANG Yu2, SUN Zhanghao2,ZHANG Yanxia1, YANG Peiling2*, REN Shumei2, WEI Chenchen2, WANG Yu2, SUN Zhanghao2,ZHANG Yanxia1, YANG Peiling2*, REN Shumei2, WEI Chenchen2, WANG Yu2, SUN Zhanghao2,ZHANG Yanxia1, YANG Peiling2*, REN Shumei2, WEI Chenchen2, WANG Yu2, SUN Zhanghao2,ZHANG Yanxia1, YANG Peiling2*, REN Shumei2, WEI Chenchen2, WANG Yu2, SUN Zhanghao2,ZHANG Yanxia1, YANG Peiling2*, REN Shumei2, WEI Chenchen2, WANG Yu2, SUN Zhanghao2
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1. Gongnongqu Electric Pumping Station, Xigu District, Lanzhou 730060, China;2. College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
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| 【Background】Water scarcity compounded by low agricultural water use efficiency is a great concern in China. Agricultural water price in China has been too low to appreciate its precious value, which is not helpful for improving water using efficiency. Given that agriculture consumes more than 60% of water used by all sectors combined din China, there is a potential to reduce the pressure on demand for water by improving agricultural water use efficiency. Of many methods, reforming agricultural water price is a way to achieve this. Increasing water price would reduce water usage and alert crop cultivation but it could also reduce farmers’ income. How to protect the interest of farmers is a critical issue in reforming agricultural water price.【Objectives】The purpose of this paper is to analyze the consequence of agricultural water price reform by taking Gongnongqu Irrigation District, a typical water-pumping irrigation district in northwest China, as a pilot example. The focus of the water price reform is to rationally reallocate the available water resources to halt a further increase in agricultural water use.【Method】We surveyed 23 pumping stations in the irrigation district and analyzed available data from 2015 to 2017. We then compared the current state of irrigation reform, costs and return of water supply, affordability of farmers, water utilization coefficient and water price policy.【Result】The current water price in the district was low and was largely compensated by the government. There is room for water price increase. Meanwhile, construction of metering network and the final canal system was weak, and should be strengthened.【Conclusion】Comprehensive analysis of the composition of the agricultural water price, water utilization efficiency, affordability of farmers and other factors, revealed that it is necessary to reform water price in the irrigation district by improving the policy subsidizing water, infrastructure and other related countermeasures. These results could provide references for water price reform in other irrigation districts in northwest China. |
| Key words: water-pumping irrigation district; northwest China; agricultural water price reform |
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