Dear Dr. Wilkens,
Kindly send me details for enroloment for the training program on DSSAT.  I
shall depute one or two candidate from my organisation for attending the
training.
With best regards and Happy Christmas
Sincerely

Saseendran

>From: "Wilkens, Paul W. <[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: DSSAT - Crop Models and Applications <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: IFDC-TNAU International Training Program on Computer Simulation f
>             or Crop Growth and Resource Management
>Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:05:14 -0600
>
>Apologies for cross-posting
>
>In co-sponsorship with the International Consortium for Agricultural
>Systems Applications and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, the
>International
>Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) is organizing an International
>Training
>
>Program on Computer Simulation for Crop Growth and Management Responses
>to be held in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, during February 21-March 3,
>2000.
>
>The program will describe the practical approaches to simulating the
>effects of soil, climatic, management, and pest factors and their
>interaction with the input needs of crops. The program will demonstrate how
>the
>processes of crop growth and development, water use, uptake of nutrients
>and
>
>response to irrigation, fertilizer, and other management decisions can be
>simulated.
>The program will make extensive use of "hands-on" practical sessions on
>personal
>computers that demonstrate the application of simulation models to cropping
>systems in various regions of the world. Together with these applications,
>the
>methods for assessing the economic risks and environmental impacts
>associated with agricultural production in real world problems will be
>discussed.
>Procedures for managing soil, crop, and weather data will be described.
>
>The program will make extensive use of the CERES-Rice, CERES-Wheat,
>and CROPGRO models for peanut and soybean. These crop simulation
>models and models for maize, sorghum, barley, dry bean, chickpea,
>potato, aroids, cassava, sugarcane, and sunflower, together with data
>preparation, and application programs have been integrated into the new
>Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) v3.5
>software package. Techniques for simulation of synthetic weather sequences
>will be described. Programs to create, run, and analyze both single season
>simulations and crop rotation simulations will be explained.  Participants
>will
>be provided with a complete copy of DSSAT v3.5, user manuals, and
>textbooks.
>
>To enroll, or to request more information (including an enrollment form),
>please respond to mailto:[log in to unmask] . Details of the training program
>can also be obtained by visiting our web site:  http://www.ifdc.org.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Paul Wilkens
>International Fertilizer Development Center
>P.O. Box 2040
>Muscle Shoals, Alabama  35630
>
>(256) 381-6600 (Tel)
>(256) 381-7408 (Fax)
>
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>http://www.ifdc.org/

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