{"id":724,"date":"2021-11-08T21:29:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T21:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/?p=724"},"modified":"2022-04-01T20:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T20:21:58","slug":"economic-value-of-albertas-irrigation-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Economic Value of Alberta&#8217;s Irrigation Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Alberta Irrigation Districts Association recently released the <em>Economic Value of Alberta\u2019s Irrigation Districts<\/em>, a study analyzing the economic impact of Alberta\u2019s 13 irrigation districts during the period 2011 to 2018.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study was conducted with methodology similar to a previous study published in 2015 that examined the impact of all irrigation-related activities throughout the province.&nbsp; Comparison of data between the two studies indicates that irrigation related activities in the 13 irrigation districts had a greater impact on the provincial economy from 2011 to 2018 than the impact observed from all provincial irrigation from 2000 to 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irrigated land within the 13 districts represents only 4.4% of the cultivated provincial land base, but annually contributes $5.4 billion to provincial GDP and $3.2 billion in labour income and supports about 46,000 full-time equivalent positions across the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being able to supplement natural precipitation on farmland results in production of consistent and high quality agricultural product to support Alberta agri-food processors.&nbsp; The study shows irrigation contributes 27% of the total primary agricultural sales in Alberta and 28% of Alberta\u2019s total Agri-food GDP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study also examined the Government of Alberta\u2019s revenue to expenditure ratio for irrigation infrastructure finding that every $1.00 invested by GOA returns $3.56 in revenue to the province.&nbsp; The Government of Alberta\u2019s support of irrigation infrastructure maintenance ensures efficient and reliable delivery of high-quality, to southern Alberta agricultural producers while providing the province with a significant return on investment.The <em>Economic Value of Alberta\u2019s Irrigation Districts<\/em> publication is available for download at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\">www.albertairrigation.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alberta Irrigation Districts Association recently released the Economic Value of Alberta\u2019s Irrigation Districts, a study analyzing the economic impact of Alberta\u2019s 13 irrigation districts during the period 2011 to 2018.&nbsp; The study was conducted with methodology similar to a previous study published in 2015 that examined the impact of all irrigation-related activities throughout the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertairrigation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}