Syllabus of System Simulation and Agroadvisory
1. Topic System Approach for representing soil-plant-atmospheric continuum, No. of lectures
2. System boundaries, Crop models, concepts & techniques,
3. Types of crop models, data requirements, relational diagrams.
4. Evaluation of crop responses to weather elements;
5. Elementary crop growth models; calibration, validation, verification and sensitivity analysis.
6. Potential and achievable crop production- concept and modelling techniques for their estimation.
7. Crop production in moisture and nutrients limited conditions; components of soil water and nutrients balance.
8. Weather forecasting, types, methods, tools & techniques,
9. forecast verification; Value added weather forecast,
10. ITK for weather forecast and its validity;
11. Crop-Weather Calendars;
12. Preparation of agro-advisory bulletin based on weather forecast.
13 Use of crop simulation model for preparation of Agro-advisory and its effective dissemination.