<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Application of Econometic Methods for Assessing the Impact of Watershed Programs"^^ . "Watershed programs in India are contributing to water resources\r\ndevelopment, agricultural production and ecological balance. Impact\r\nassessment of watershed development project includes:(i) developing\r\na framework to identify what impacts to assess and (ii) developing\r\na framework to look after the indicators together and assessing the\r\noverall impact of the project. The nature of watershed technologies\r\nand their impact on different sectors pose challenges to the evaluation\r\nprocess. More specifically, major challenges include (i) choice of\r\nmethodologies,(ii) selection of indicators,(iii) choice of discount rate,\r\n(iv) quantifying benefits in upstream and downstream,(v) defining\r\nthe zone of influence, and (vi) extent of natural and artificial recharge\r\nconventional methods using financial measures attempt to quantify\r\nthe impacts in an isolated manner. In order to evaluate the impacts\r\nof watershed programs in a holistic manner, the Economic Surplus\r\n(ES) approach has been applied. The economic surplus incorporates\r\nboth consumer surplus and producer surplus. The consumer surplus\r\nis the amount that consumers benefit by being able to purchase a\r\nproduct for a price that is less than they would be willing to pay. The\r\nproducer surplus is the amount that producers benefit by selling at a\r\nmarket price mechanism that is higher than they would be willing to\r\nsell for. In the case of watershed programs, producers are mainly the\r\nfarm households who produce the goods using the benefits of the\r\nwatershed interventions such as soil and moisture conservation, water\r\ntable increase and livestock improvement activities and consumers are\r\nmainly the other stakeholders in the region, viz. non-farm households\r\nrepresenting the labourers, business people and people employed\r\nin non-agricultural activities. The ES method is demonstrated using\r\nthe data from a cluster of 10 watersheds in the Coimbatore district\r\nof Tamil Nadu. The distributional effects of watershed programs are\r\nalso captured through the ES method. The results of the conventional\r\nmethod had indicated that the BCR is 1.23, IRR is 14% and NPV is Rs\r\n567912. The results of the ES method had indicated that the BCR is\r\n1.93, the IRR is 25% and the NPV is Rs 2271021. The conventional\r\nevaluation method had thus underestimated the watershed impacts.\r\nHence, possibilities of using the ES methodology in the future\r\nwatershed evaluation programs could be examined\r\n"^^ . "2011" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "S P"^^ . "Wani"^^ . "S P Wani"^^ . . "D S"^^ . "Kumar"^^ . "D S Kumar"^^ . . "K"^^ . "Palanisami"^^ . "K Palanisami"^^ . . . . "Use of High Science Tools in Integrated Watershed Management Proceedings of the National Symposium"^^ . . . . . "NASC Complex, New Delhi, India"^^ . . . . . . "Application of Econometic Methods for Assessing the Impact of Watershed Programs (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "Application_of_econometic_methods_for_assessing_the_impact_of_watershed_programs.pdf"^^ . . . "Application of Econometic Methods for Assessing the Impact of Watershed Programs (Image (JPEG))"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Application of Econometic Methods for Assessing the Impact of Watershed Programs (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #3561 \n\nApplication of Econometic Methods for Assessing the Impact of Watershed Programs\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Watershed Management"@en . .