摘要：
Central Weather Bureau (CWB) is the only legitimate government’s agency to issue important weather forecasts and warnings in Taiwan. In the last four years, CWB has continuously funded our CIER team to explore the potential social benefits and economic values of CWB’s climate services. This study uses contingent valuation method (CVM) to evaluate the economic benefits of CWB’s climate services for Taiwanese farmers. We have conducted a national face-to-face survey for 400 registered farmers in 20 municipals in Taiwan in 2013. The data consists of six major agricultural product (including rice, coarse grain, special crops, ornamental plants, vegetables, and fruits) farmers in Taiwan. The significant variables affecting WTP have been identified, such as respondent’s subjective score for the weather forecast accuracy, farming size, and first bid price. The estimate of annual economic values for climate services for agricultural farmers is between 883~1,432 million NT dollars (equal to 29~47 million US dollars).
