The International Rice Research Institute, the Philippines, has updated the Oryza2000 software, which is used to simulate rice crop growth and yield.
Tri Deri Setiyono, a scientist at the Institute, said that the official release of Oryza 2000 (version 3.0) was awaited. He was here at the four-day International Training on Oryza2000 Crop Modelling Programme organised jointly by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and the Institute.
“This training aims to provide a remote-sensing-driven-crop growth model to estimate actual rice yields using weather, crop management and soil information,” Setiyono said.
The farm varsity in collaboration with the Institute is implementing a project — Remote Sensing-based Information and Insurance for Crops in Emerging Economies — at Cauvery and Vaigai River basins and the rain-fed rice-growing areas in Sivaganga district.
Twelve scientists of the farm varsity are undergoing training on Oryza2000.
P. Subbian, Acting Vice-Chancellor and Registrar of the farm varsity, said that the use of rice crop-modelling systems were found promising, especially in situations of biotic and abiotic stresses, for which human expertise was necessary to apply the models profitably.