Performance evaluation of AquaCrop model for maize crop in a semi-arid environment

M. Abedinpour, A. Sarangi, T.B.S. Rajput, Man Singh, H. Pathak and T. Ahmad

Agricultural Water Management, 2012, vol. 110, issue C, 55-66

Abstract: Crop growth simulation models of varying complexity have been developed for predicting the effects of soil, water and nutrients on grain and biomass yields and water productivity of different crops. These models are calibrated and validated for a given region using the data generated from field experiments. In this study, a water-driven crop model AquaCrop, developed by FAO was calibrated and validated for maize crop under varying irrigation and nitrogen regimes. The experiment was conducted at the research farm of the Water Technology Centre, IARI, New Delhi during kharif 2009 and 2010. Calibration was done using the data of 2009 and validation with the data of 2010. Irrigation applications comprised rainfed, i.e. no irrigation (W1) irrigation at 50% of field capacity (FC) (W2) at 75% FC (W3) and full irrigation (W4). Nitrogen application levels were no nitrogen (N1), 75kgha−1 (N2) and 150kgha−1 (N3). Model efficiency (E), coefficient of determination (R2), Root Mean Square error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) were used to test the model performance. The model was calibrated for simulating maize grain and biomass yield for all treatment levels with the prediction error statistics 0.95Keywords: AquaCrop model; Calibration; Validation; Maize crop; Deficit irrigation; Nitrogen (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2012.04.001

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