Research Article

Estimating Smallholder Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Sustainable Irrigation Water Use in North Western Ethiopia: A Contingent Valuation Method Study in Gumara Irrigation Project

Table 4

Number of zero willingness-to-pay bids with reasons.

No.Reasons for unwillingness to payTotal
No.%

1.Management of the money and will be misappropriated120
2.Cost of agricultural production through irrigation is too high120
3.Land sizes are too small and water is not well distributed240
4.Crop yield is too low because of the prevalence of crop diseases120
Total5100

Source: survey data, 2020.