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Aquacrop Course

This document provides a time table for an online and face-to-face crash course on using the AquaCrop model to improve crop water productivity. The online portion involves video lectures on the climate, soil, and crop parameters components of AquaCrop, as well as exercises to practice managing databases and calculating reference evapotranspiration. The face-to-face course covers morning lecture sessions on yield responses, irrigation management, and deriving guidelines from simulations. Afternoon practical PC sessions focus on simulating water stresses, generating irrigation schedules, and assessing climate change impacts through hands-on exercises with the AquaCrop software.

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Aquacrop Course

This document provides a time table for an online and face-to-face crash course on using the AquaCrop model to improve crop water productivity. The online portion involves video lectures on the climate, soil, and crop parameters components of AquaCrop, as well as exercises to practice managing databases and calculating reference evapotranspiration. The face-to-face course covers morning lecture sessions on yield responses, irrigation management, and deriving guidelines from simulations. Afternoon practical PC sessions focus on simulating water stresses, generating irrigation schedules, and assessing climate change impacts through hands-on exercises with the AquaCrop software.

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Time Table – Crash course on “Capacity development for farm management strategies to improve

crop water productivity using AquaCrop”

Online preparation

ONLINE program - Theory, concepts and demonstration in voice-over powerpoints (video’s)


Basic exercises with general step-by-step manual
Topics
 Relevance of crop water productivity
• Introduction  Presentation of AquaCrop
4 videos (40’)

 Reference ET (ETo)
• Climate in AquaCrop  Agroclimatic data collection and processing
 Required weather data for AquaCrop
 Practical exercise: calculation of ETo and input of climatic data
4 videos (60’) – of which 2 refreshers

 Soil physical characteristics, water content, balance and movement


• Soil in AquaCrop  Soil characteristics in AquaCrop
 Practical exercise: database management (Soil)
 Initial soil water content & start of growing cycle
7 video’s (1u10’) – of which 3 refreshers

 Conservative and non-conservative crop parameters & tuning of


• Crop parameters in AquaCrop parameters
 Stress coefficients in AquaCrop
 Projects for multiple simulations in AquaCrop
 Practical exercise: Database management (Crop)
5 video’s (40’)
Face-to-face crash course

MORNING programme – Theory, Concepts and Demonstration sessions


Day 1 Day 2
Yield response to water Field management
Morning Crop characteristics: Farm management
Session 1  Canopy development  Water saving techniques
 Crop Transpiration  Soil fertility and crop responses
 Biomass production Calibration of soil fertility stress
from  Yield response to water
9.00 am Soil salinity stress
to 10.30
Presence of groundwater table and capillary rise
Climate change, model application & evaluation
Morning Irrigation management
Session 2
Water Productivity Effect of climate change on crop production

from Irrigated farming Deriving practical guidelines from simulation results:


11.00 am  Net irrigation requirement
 Presentation of case studies
to 12.30  Irrigation schedule
 Generation of Irrigation schedule  Formulation of guidelines
 Deficit irrigation

Evaluation of simulation results


AFTERNOON programme – Practical sessions at PC
Day 1 Day 2
Simulations with AquaCrop
Afternoon Practical Exercise on PC: Practical Exercise on PC:
Session 1  Response to water stresses  Irrigation scheduling
 Database management (Irrigation)  Database management (Field)
from  Climate change impact
2.00 pm
to 3.30

continued continued
Afternoon
Session 2

from
4.00 pm
to 5.30

Shaded cells refer to practical exercises at PC

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