It has one Soil module, a Crop Template module which can simulate different crops by defining species input files, an interface to add individual crop models if they have the same design and interface, a Weather module, and a module for dealing with competition for light and water among the soil, plants, and atmosphere.
Dietitians have recommended also carrot crop for module 2, pepper for module 3 and tomato for module 4. The maximal total PGF light energy estimated as 1.16 kW and total power consumption as about 7kWW.
A simulation study that included 773 simulations and assessed the full suite of crop growth modules within DSSAT-CSM was conducted for each compiler and operating system configuration.
Local sensitivity analysis was used on drainage estimated by two biophysical models WaterMod 3, with a crop growth module, and HYDRUS-1D without a crop growth module.
A look inside the different crop and soil modules to understand how outputs are obtained might facilitate model choice.
The cultural management plan module included submodels to determine target grain yield and quality, cultivar choice, sowing date, population density, sowing rate, fertilization strategy, and water management, whereas the crop regulation indices module included submodels for suitable development stages, dynamic growth indices, source-sink indices, and nutrient indices.
Agro-machinery costs are assumed to be embedded in energy crop costs (resources module).
This pigeonpea module, when coupled with other crop, soil and management modules can be used to address a range of cropping systems issues.
Based on the original ACASA model, we made the improved modifications including four added modules (C4 crop photosynthesis, water stress response of stomatal conductance, crop morphological changes, and heterogeneous root water uptake), and two adjusted calculation procedures (soil evaporation resistance and hydraulic characteristic parameters).
