@article{Dinar:172851,
      recid = {172851},
      author = {Dinar, Ariel and Yaron, Dan},
      title = {Adoption and abandonment of irrigation technologies},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International  Association of Agricultural Economists},
      address = {1992-04},
      number = {968-2016-75825},
      pages = {18},
      year = {1992},
      abstract = {Adoption and abandonment processes are analyzed for seven  irrigation technologies. A
procedure is developed to  estimate the technology cycle and applied to data available  for
citrus groves in several regions of Israel, and Gaza.  The technology cycle was used to
estimate  diffusion-abandonment patterns for several irrigation  technologies that have been
abandoned. Results suggest that  the technology cycle is unique to each technology  and
similar in length for all regions. Results predict the  year of full abandonment of each
technology. For modern  technologies still in the diffusion phase, a logistic  equation was
fitted to the aggregated data. Results suggest  that diffusion is significantly affected by
economic  variables such as water price, crop yield price, and  subsidy for irrigation equipment.
Use of the estimated  equations for policy purposes suggest that water price  and
subsidy for irrigation equipment can be used to control  the diffusion process (speed and
ceiling) of the irrigation  technologies.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/172851},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.172851},
}