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The aim of this work is to calculate and compare the economic efficiency indices of irrigated farms and the level of optimisation of irrigation water used for the main crops of the Gharb area. To this end, a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model was used to calculate efficiency indices. The survey covered 49 farms with different crop systems (vegetables, citrus crops, cereals, forage, sugar beet and sugar cane) and different irrigation systems (drip, sprinkler and gravity-fed). The results show that the most efficient farms are both those affected by water stress and those with “unlimited” access to water resources (private pumping). On the other hand, 73 % of the farms are inefficient, indicating that the majority of farmers do not have a good grasp of the available technology.
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Gharb Regional Agricultural Development Agency.
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Six of the 13 farms were surveyed by Mamounata SEMDE, Rural Engineer, Hassan II Agronomy and the Veterinary Medicine Institute.
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In this irrigation method, a worker brings water to the plot with a plastic hose and tries to cover the whole acreage. This practice is very common in groundnut cultivation in the sandy coastal area.
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ETM Evapotranspiration maximum.
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Harbouze, R., Le Grusse, P., Bouaziz, A., Mailhol, J.C., Ruelle, P., Raki, M. (2014). Economic Efficiency of Production Systems in the Gharb Irrigated Area (Morocco) Affected by Access to Water Resources. In: Zopounidis, C., Kalogeras, N., Mattas, K., van Dijk, G., Baourakis, G. (eds) Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy. Cooperative Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06635-6_22
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