The Web Based Crop Simulation Model Infocrop-Wheat: Simulating the Impact of Moisture and Temperature Stress.

Crop model can simulate growth and yield of crop at the field scale and provide useful information to the producers. The INFOCROP–Wheat model, developed in the early 2000s, is one of the generic crop models for simulating wheat growth and yield. The original model included modules for simulating the effects of weather, soils, and agronomic management practices such as planting, nitrogen, residues and irrigation on crop growth and yield as well as the changes in soil carbon, nitrogen and water. In the beginning, the major applications of this model were to assess crop yields and losses due to pests.  But the general limitations due to poor data collection and technological restrictions hamper the packaging of this complex model in a framework that can make them easy for the producers to use. The web-based applications provide an efficient and powerful way for delivering crop models to the crop producers. Only a few among the currently available crop simulation models can be run on the web. The INFOCROP – wheat model is a generic crop model, developed as a tool for simulating crop growth and yield. In our recent modelling studies we have developed the web-based INFOCROP-Wheat. A description of the latest advancement on web based INFOCROP and its application for simulating the impacts of moisture and temperature stress on wheat will be presented.