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Modeling the Growth and Development of Sorghum and Pearl Millet

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Title Modeling the Growth and Development of Sorghum and Pearl Millet
 
Creator Virmani, S M
Tandon, H L S
Alagarswamy, G
 
Subject Millets
Sorghum
 
Description The 1980s have witnessed substantial increases in food production.
This has raised expectations that improved systems of
farming will be rapidly adopted by small farmers in developing
countries. The agroecological environment of such farms is
fragile and the farmers are resource-poor. Therefore, strategies
recommended for increasing food production must be ecologically
sound and should result in sustainable agriculture.
System modeling can greatly expedite the search for improved
development strategies. Recent advances in crop modeling
have made it possible to simulate yields and growth of several
crops under varied soil and weather conditions with different
management practices. This bulletin describes the framework
of CERES (Crop Estimation Through Resource and Environment
Synthesis) models developed by the International Benchmark
Sites Network for Agrotechnology Transfer ( IBSNAT)
and The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-
Ar i d Tropics ( ICRISAT) . Recent wor k on the simulation of
nitrogen transformation in soils at the International Fertilizer
Development Center ( IFDC) is discussed. A section on risk
analyzes the cost-benefit implications of various inputs for
increased crop production. RESCAP—a resource capture
model developed at ICRISAT Center is presented.
This publication is a cogent source book on the current status
of development of CERES and RESCAP models, their data
needs, outputs, and applications.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 1989
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/955/1/RA_000163.pdf
Virmani, S M and Tandon, H L S and Alagarswamy, G (1989) Modeling the Growth and Development of Sorghum and Pearl Millet. Technical Report. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.