ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES FOR THE UTILIZATION OF

QUANTITY, QUALITY AND AVAILABILITY (QQA)

SURFACE WATER
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Reflis , Fahrurrozie 3
Sjarkowi , Sriati3 and Didik Susetyo4
1. Department of Environmental Science, The Graduate School of Sriwijaya Univeristy, Indonesia
2. Department of Agribusiness, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bengkulu, Indonesia
3. Department of Agribusiness, Faculty of Agriculture, Sriwijaya University, Indonesia
4. Department of Economics Development, Faculty of Economics, Sriwijaya University, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
The environmental services fee program is a policy instrument to protect the watershed and increase the quantity quality and
availability (QQA) of Irrigation water. The value of willingness to pay as the environmental service of water resource can state
the participation of farmers in the sustainable management of environmental services for water resources in the upstream
watershed area of Musi, Kapahiang Regency. This study aims to find out the participation of farmers through the formulation
of willingness and ability to pay a fee for irrigation water resource services. The result of binary regression obtained that
factors affecting willingness to pay of farmer for irrigation water resource services fee were the basic knowledge of irrigation
water resource services fee, the role in irrigation maintenance, the farming income and the distance rice fields to the river as
a water resource. The estimation model of the ability of farmers to pay compensation for the services of the water resources
environment with multinomial logit regression showed that the distance rice fields to the river the status of land ownership
education and demographic history affect the willingness to pay of farmers for irrigation water resource services fee. The
average WTP wanted by farmer was IDR.168.947,37 per plot per year, while total WTP in upstream Musi watershed of
Kepahiang was IDR.640.310.526,30 per plot per year.

INTRODUCTION
The change of ecological function in water catchment area due to sharp enhancement
for food crops water requirement had caused disturbance in quantity, quality, and
availability (QQA) of water. In order to face the problem, technical and socio-ecological
action for recovering the function of water basin area and adapting to climate change
are absolutely needed. The Irrigation Water Resources Services (IWRS) program is an
instrumental policy for water basin conservation. Willingness to Pay (WTP) value
could formulate farmers’ participation in management of sustainable water area in
upstream Musi watershed of Kapahiang.
METHODS
Location : The Upstream Watershed Area Of Musi. Kapahiang Regency
Data analysis method:
Quantitative and Qualitative
FGD,
Willingness To Pay (WTP) Approach,
Contingent Valuation Method (CVM),
Metode Attribute-Based Method (ABM),
Conjoint-Choice Method (CCM)

RESULTS
𝑷 𝒀𝑾𝑻𝑷 = 𝟏 ; where:
𝟏 −(𝒀𝑾𝑻𝑷)
+𝒆

YWTP = -3,617 - 1,173X5 + 1,332X7 + 1,641 X8 + 0,003 X10

CONCLUSION
Factors effecting the willingness of farmers to pay irrigation water resources
services were: knowledge about irrigation water resources services(X5), role in
irrigation maintenance (X7), the farming income (X8), and the distance from paddy
field to river (X10). Results of model estimation indicated that distance, land
ownership status, education and demography history effecting the ability of farmers
to pay irrigation water resources services fee.
The average WTP wanted by farmer was IDR.168.947,37 per plot per year, while
total WTP in upstream Musi watershed of Kepahiang was IDR.640.310.526,30 per
plot per year.