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

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Designing improved plant types: a breeder’s viewpoint....Pages 3-17
Improvement of rice plant type concepts: systems research enables interaction of physiology and breeding....Pages 19-35
Designing improved plant types for the semiarid tropics: agronomists’ viewpoints....Pages 37-61
Simulation in pre-testing of rice genotypes in Tamil Nadu....Pages 63-75
Genetic specific data for crop modeling....Pages 77-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Agro-ecological zoning using crop growth simulation models: characterization of wheat environments of India....Pages 97-109
An agroclimatic approach to agricultural development in India....Pages 111-125
Optimising harvest operations against weather risk....Pages 127-143
The impacts of climate change on rice yield: evaluation of the efficacy of different modeling approaches....Pages 145-174
Rice production and climate change....Pages 175-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
A systems approach to the assessment and improvement of water use efficiency in the North China plain....Pages 193-205
Soil data for crop-soil models....Pages 207-220
Root ventilation, rhizosphere modification, and nutrient uptake by rice....Pages 221-232
Adjustment of nitrogen inputs in response to a seasonal forecast in a region of high climatic risk....Pages 233-252
Maize modeling in Malawi: a tool for soil fertility research and development....Pages 253-273
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Pest damage relations at the field level....Pages 277-296
Quantification of components contributing to rate-reducing resistance in a plant virus pathosystem....Pages 297-308
The rice leaf blast simulation model EPIBLAST....Pages 309-321
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
Potential for systems simulation in farming systems research....Pages 325-339
Making farming systems analysis a more objective and quantitative research tool....Pages 341-353
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
Options for agricultural development: a new quantitative approach....Pages 355-365
Options for agricultural development: a case study for Mali’s fifth Region....Pages 367-380
Multicriteria optimization for a sustainable agriculture....Pages 381-396
Simulation of multiple cropping systems with CropSys....Pages 397-412
Optimization of cropping patterns in tank irrigation systems in Tamil Nadu, India....Pages 413-425
Agricultural development in Thailand....Pages 427-443
A methodological framework to explore long-term options for land use....Pages 445-455
Front Matter....Pages 457-457
Decision support systems for agricultural development....Pages 459-471
Constraints in technology transfer: a users’ perspective with a focus on IPM, Philippines....Pages 473-484
Postgraduate education in Agricultural Systems: the AIT experience....Pages 485-504
The IBSNAT project....Pages 505-513
Building capacity for systems research at national agricultural research centres: SARP’s experience....Pages 515-538
Back Matter....Pages 539-543