In this paper, we modeled water trading in southern Alberta by incorporating irrigation technologies and crop choices. We consider six irrigation technologies and twelve crops with a variation in land quality to examine the adoption gains from water trading. The results are summarized to account for the gains from water trading and the probability of farmers switching to efficient irrigation technologies to cultivate profitable crops. Simulation results suggest that famers are more likely to follow rational adoption approach in using the gain from water trading to adopt efficient irrigation technologies. This is more likely to occur when the net gain is higher than the cost of adopting an irrigation technology. However, sensitivity analysis shows that high crop price regimes and provision of subsidies on the impact of water trading on technology adoptions could encourage farmers to adopt improved irrigation technologies to produce profitable crops. Effective policies to provide incentives to farmers to adopt efficient irrigation technologies and to improve crop yields may be necessary for the study area.

在本文中，我们通过结合灌溉技术和农作物选择对艾伯塔省南部的水贸易进行了建模。我们考虑了六种灌溉技术和十二种作物，它们的土地质量各不相同，以研究水交易带来的采用收益。总结了这些结果，以说明水交易带来的收益以及农民转而使用高效灌溉技术来种植有利可图的作物的可能性。模拟结果表明，农民在利用自来水交易中获得的收益来采用有效的灌溉技术时，更可能遵循合理的采用方法。当净收益高于采用灌溉技术的成本时，更可能发生这种情况。然而，敏感性分析表明，高昂的农作物价格制度和对水贸易对技术采用的影响提供补贴可能会鼓励农民采用改良的灌溉技术来生产有利可图的作物。研究区域可能需要采取有效政策，鼓励农民采用高效灌溉技术并提高农作物产量。