DSSAT Training Program

Program Highlights

The program will:

• Describe a practical approach for simulating effects of soil, weather, management, and pest factors on crop production.
• Demonstrate how processes of crop growth and development, water use, uptake of water and nutrients and carbon dynamics can be simulated.
• Make extensive use of "hands on" sessions that apply the DSSAT and the Cropping System Model (CSM) to cropping systems in various regions of the world.
• Describe procedures for collecting and managing crop, weather and soil data for model evaluation.
• Give participants the opportunity to work with their own data and determine the accuracy of the models for application to specific problems.
• Analyze management alternatives for single seasons or over long-term crop rotations.
• Concentrate on specific applications that include irrigation, fertilizer and nutrient management, climate change, soil carbon sequestration, climate variability, and precision management, and bioenergy.
• Assess economic risks and environmental impacts associated with agricultural production.