Abstract:
By using the human capital approach (HCA),preventive expenditure approach (PEA) and contingent valuation method (CVM),the losses of environmental value of groundwater nitrate pollution sourced from a typical highyielding farmland,Huantai County,are evaluated.And the suitabilities of different methods for estimating the agriculture-related groundwater problems are analyzed.The precedence order of suitability is PEA by well-drilling project>PEA by de-nitrate project≥HCA>CVM.For the whole county in 2002,the loss of environmental value of groundwater nitrate pollution caused by farming is about 8.8 million yuan/year,ranging from 8.608 to 11.701 million yuan/year.This value accounts for 1.1%~1.5% of the gross agricultural production.