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The IBSNAT Project and Agricultural Experimentation in Developing Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

S. R. Harrison ,
P. K. Thornton  and
J. B. Dent
S. R. Harrison
Affiliation:
The Edinburgh School of Agriculture, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, Scotland
P. K. Thornton*
Affiliation:
The Edinburgh School of Agriculture, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, Scotland
J. B. Dent
Affiliation:
The Edinburgh School of Agriculture, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, Scotland
*
‡ To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Summary

The International Benchmark Sites Network for Agrotechnology Transfer (IBSNAT) project has established an international network of co-operating farming systems researchers. A decision support system that includes a number of crop models and databases has been developed to assist in the evaluation of new agrotechnology packages in the tropics and sub-tropics. Standards have been established for the recording of ‘minumum data sets’ from field experiments to allow the crop models to be validated for specific sites. The decision support system, still under active development, has the potential to reduce substantially the time and cost of field experimentation necessary for adequate evaluation of new cultivars and new crop management systems.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , October 1990 , pp. 369 - 380
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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Footnotes

†Present address: Department of Economics, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4067, Australia.

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