Simulation Models as Tools for Crop Management

Author

Herman van Keulen 

Abstract

Agricultural production can be defined as the transformation of sun energy in useful organic material in the form of food, feed, and fiber. The transformation requires in principle only limited resources: a piece of land, some seeds from a wanted plant species, some sun and rain, and some human labor. However, the transformation takes place under erratic and unpredictable conditions, as especially the availability and timing of the sun and the rain are extremely difficult, if not impossible to predict, while their effects are modified by the qualities of the land and the interventions of the farmer. Any methodology that would improve the predictability of the availability of the resources and their impact on the performance of the production system could in principle improve that performance and reduce the level of uncertainty. Crop growth simulation models ...

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