Hi Melkamu,

I did maize-cowpea intercrop modeling for my PhD research in Australia some
years back. There is a template for intercropping within APSIM, the generic
software of the APSRU (Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit) in
Toowoomba, Australia.

Contact Dr. Peter Carberry of the DPI/CSIRO, APSRU, Toowoomba, Queensland,
Australia for some more info.

You may also contact Prof. R. Caldwell. He was formerly in the University of
Hawaii but I am not sure whether he is still there. He has done several
works in intercrop modelling.

Cheers

Samuel Adiku
Dept. of Soil Science,
University of Ghana
Legon, Accra
Ghana

>From: Melkamu Jate <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: DSSAT - Crop Models and Applications <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Alfalfa and maize integrated production
>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 12:53:20 -0500
>
>1.For Modelling of Alfalfa and Maize intercropping and rotation,is it
>recomandable to use CERES?
>2.Would you send me  copies  of  Genetic coefficients files of CERES -
>alfalfa and CERES non -silage maize?
>3.Any sugestions concerning Modelling of Alfalfa and non-silage Maize which
>are helpful  for analysis of my experimental data.
>
>Melkamu Jate, M.Sc.student: Hohenheim university, Germany


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