ThaiCane Model Project 2nd
Phase, MCC, CMU, Thailand.
Goals | Project
descriptions | Funding
| Partners and
Collaborators
Project Goals
Similar to the first phase, ThaiCane 2nd phase
is a collaborative effort by agricultural scientists, who have
come together to conduct research on and develop and test a
sugarcane model, which integrate existing understandings of cane
response to environmental factor such as temperature, solar
radiation, daylength, management levels, etc. The aim of this
research is to produce a sugarcane model which allow large scale
cane production level, with suitable spatial and point databases
in Thailand.
Project Description
- The 2nd phase is a 2-years research
project, covers the period of 15 July 1997 to 14 July
1999. The project focusses on one major question related
to sugarcane production in Thailand, the difference and
the official estimates and the reported cane production
in each year. Four major research tasks are being carry
out, simultaneously, to tackle the problem.
- First, the development and testing
of sugarcane growth models, and effort will be
given on nitrogen dynamics in sugarcane
production systems.
- Second, the development of spatial
and point-based databases for use with the model
to assist in a large scale cane production.
- Third, the development of an
interface shell between the validated sugarcane
model and the databases
- Fourth, the dissimination of the
project's findings. Series of training programs
for interested individuals will be organized.
Funding
The 2nd phase of the ThaiCane project is
supported by Thailand Research Fund (TRF)
and the Multiple Cropping Center, Chiang Mai University, Chiang
mai, Thailand.
Partners and
Collaborators
IBSNAT, ICASA , of the University of Hawaii (a renowned non-profit
international clearing house for crop modeling and system
simulation, based in University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
96822, USA.