Water Demand Management under Alternative Institutional Arrangements in Coastal Lands of Yengejeh Dam

摘要

This study aims to investigate the management of water demand in different product markets indownstream lands of Yengejeh Dam in Neyshabur. This is an exploratory study in nature which was conductedthrough a questionnaire survey in 2015-2016. The population of this research is all farmers who use the waterof Yengejeh Dam to irrigate their lands. Using Cochran formula at the level of 6% error, 139 farmers selected asthe sample of this research randomly.A scenario of increasing the elasticity of product demand in resourceallocation in the competitive and monopolar water market was developed by assimilation algorithm in thestudied region. According to the market situation of water in the region which is almost similar to monopolywater market, the results suggest that If barley farmers in this area replace the cultivation of these crops andexport-oriented instead of barley, the amount of product reduced and Farmers increase their yield per hectareof land with using more water supply and more area under cultivation.