Systems approaches for agricultural development Proceedings of the International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, 2–6 December 1991, Bangkok, Thailand /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Vries, Frits Penning de. (Autor), Teng, Paul. (Autor), Metselaar, Klaas. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1993.
Edición:1st ed. 1993.
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2842-1
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Session 1. Crop Production: Genotypic Constraints
  • Designing improved plant types: a breeder’s viewpoint
  • Improvement of rice plant type concepts: systems research enables interaction of physiology and breeding
  • Designing improved plant types for the semiarid tropics: agronomists’ viewpoints
  • Simulation in pre-testing of rice genotypes in Tamil Nadu
  • Genetic specific data for crop modeling
  • Session 2. Crop Production: Weather Constraints
  • Agro-ecological zoning using crop growth simulation models: characterization of wheat environments of India
  • An agroclimatic approach to agricultural development in India
  • Optimising harvest operations against weather risk
  • The impacts of climate change on rice yield: evaluation of the efficacity of different modeling approaches
  • Rice production and climate change
  • Session 3. Crop Production: Soil Constraints
  • A systems approach to the assessment and improvement of water use efficiency in the North China Plain
  • Soil data for crop-soil models
  • Root ventilation, rhizosphere modification, and nutrient uptake by rice
  • Adjustment of nitrogen inputs in response to a seasonal forecast in a region of high climatic risk
  • Maize modeling in Malawi: a tool for soil fertility research and development
  • Session 4. Crop Production: Biological Constraints
  • Pest damage relations at the field level
  • Quantification of components contributing to rate-reducing resistance in a plant virus pathosystem
  • The rice leaf blast simulation model ‘Epiblast’
  • Session 5. Farming Systems
  • Potential for systems simulation in farming systems research?
  • Making farming systems a more objective and quantitative research tool
  • Options for agricultural development: a new quantitative approach
  • Options for agricultural development: a case study for Mali’s fifth Region
  • Multicriteria optimization for a sustainable agriculture
  • Simulation of multiple cropping systems with CropSys
  • Optimization of cropping patterns in tank irrigation systems in Tamil Nadu, India
  • Agricultural development in Thailand
  • A methodological framework to explore long-term options for land use
  • Session 6. Education, Training and Technology Transfer
  • Decision support systems for agricultural development
  • Constraints in technology transfer: a user’s perspective with a focus on IPM, Philippines
  • Postgraduate education in agricultural systems: the AIT experience
  • The IBSNAT project
  • Building capacity for systems research at national agricultural research centres: SARP’s experience.