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

<table class="table-group" id="tab9"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Commanded area</td><td class="align_center">Number of user population</td><td class="align_center">Total irrigating area in hectare</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>Kuhar michael</i> Kebele</td><td class="align_center">248</td><td class="align_center">372.5</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>Shina</i> Kebele</td><td class="align_center">293</td><td class="align_center">439.5</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>Jigna</i> Kebele</td><td class="align_center">630</td><td class="align_center">1008</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Total user population</td><td class="align_center">1171</td><td class="align_center">1820</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">No of protested users</td><td class="align_center">46 (If 12 protest households get from 300 households, then how much protests would be in 1171? Then it would be 46)</td><td class="align_center">72.8</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td><div>Source: survey data, 2020.<br/></div></td></tr></table>

<div>Estimation of aggregate willingness to pay.</div>

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Table 9: Estimating Smallholder Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Sustainable Irrigation Water Use in North Western Ethiopia: A Contingent Valuation Method Study in <i>Gumara</i> Irrigation Project 

Table 9 | Estimating Smallholder Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Sustainable Irrigation Water Use in North Western Ethiopia: A Contingent Valuation Method Study in Gumara Irrigation Project 