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Optimum sowing dates for soybean in central India using CROPGRO and ClimProb symbiosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2002

Rajesh Kumar
Affiliation:
Department of Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221 005, India
K K Singh
Affiliation:
National Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (DST), Mausam Bhavan, Lodi Road, New Delhi - 110 003, India
B R D Gupta
Affiliation:
Department of Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221 005, India
A K Baxla
Affiliation:
National Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (DST), Mausam Bhavan, Lodi Road, New Delhi - 110 003, India
L S Rathore
Affiliation:
National Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (DST), Mausam Bhavan, Lodi Road, New Delhi - 110 003, India
S D Attri
Affiliation:
India Meteorological Department, Lodi Road, New Delhi - 110 003, India
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Abstract

The optimum sowing dates for soybean cv. Gaurav were derived for Jabalpur, Raipur and Gwalior in the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. Dates were derived based on two strategies: (a) probabilities of rainfall and temperature events using ClimProb, a PC based software package, and (b) the CROPGRO Soybean v3.0 crop growth simulation model. In Madhya Pradesh, the optimum sowing dates for multiple cropping, with the first crop as soybean under rainfed conditions, are between weeks 25 and 27, while the optimum sowing dates for rainfed mono-cropping are between weeks 28 and 29.

Type
Research Article
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© 2002 Royal Meteorological Society

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