The Role of Land Retirement Programs for Management of Water Resources



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The water planner’s problem is to maximize the net present value of the total profits in

the region subject to equation (1) and Ajjt ≤ Ai in order to determine the optimal water use and
j


land allocations among crops as:

N

max ∫ Σ e - A- [Pyt - C ( Gt, di ) gjjt dt

gijt, Aijt 0 i,j


(3)


where ρ is the discount rate. By augmenting the Hamiltonian, we can write the present-value

Lagrangian with the information in the inequality constraint as (Chiang, 1992, p. 278):


Λ = Σ e^ρtAjijte^ρt + λ - jig, + R
j, j                                         L j, j


+ λ2 i Ai - Σ Ajjt


(4)


Assuming interior solutions (i.e., gijt0 and Aijt0 ), we have the following conditions for the


maximum principle along with the equation of motion for G in (1):


дЛ   ∂∏ e ^ρ- λ>α= 0

gijt gijt


∂Λ

dAijt


= πijte-ρt
jt


- λ1αigijt


- λ2i 0, λ2i0, j

2i            2i        Aijt 2i


=0


(5.a)

(5.b)


— = A..te -ρt π = - dλ .

(5.c)


G i j ijtG dt

,j

Equation (5.a) states that under the social optimality the marginal benefit of groundwater
use is equal to the marginal cost of groundwater extraction plus the shadow price of effectively
used groundwater. This shadow price reflects the cost imposed on the future generation by using
water now. Equation (5.b) with   
λ1   obtained from (5.a) implies that

ρt       πit ρt

πijte ρ - gijtl-e ρ - λ2i 0, where λ2i is the shadow price of land availability constraint.
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This indicates that the farmers allocate the land to the crop with the highest ratio of the benefits



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