DSSAT Training Program

Cropping System Model & DSSAT

Image: In class The program will make extensive use of the DSSAT-Cropping System Model (CSM). CSM is a general cropping system model for simulating crop growth and development and soil and plant water, nitrogen and carbon dynamics. CSM is comprised of the CROPGRO module for soybean, peanut, common bean, chickpea, faba bean, cowpea, and other grain legumes, the CERES module for maize, sorghum and millet, the CERES-Rice module for rice, the SUBSTOR module for potato, the CROPSIM-CERES module for wheat and barley, the Image: Students in the field CROPGRO module for tomato, bahia, brachiaria, and cotton, the CANEGRO module for sugarcane, and the CROPSIM module for cassave. The CENTURY model for the simulation of soil carbon and nitrogen is also included in CSM. DSSAT v4 is Windows based and includes the CSM model as well as tools and utility programs for managing soil, weather, genetic, crop, economic and pest data, and application and analysis programs.

Software for working with soil, weather, and experimental data.
Modular DSSAT Cropping System Model incorporating CERES, CROPGRO, SUBSTOR, CROPSIM and CANEGRO.
Crops: bahia, barley, bell pepper, brachiaria, cabbage, cassava, chickpea, cotton, cowpea, drybean, faba bean, maize, millet, peanut, pineapple, potato, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane, sunflower, tanier, taro, tomato, velvet bean, wheat.