{"id":3438,"date":"2023-02-13T11:01:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T05:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:56:37","slug":"infocrop-simulation-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/infocrop-simulation-model\/","title":{"rendered":"InfoCrop Simulation Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About InfoCrop simulation Model:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2004, InfoCrop version 1 was <strong>launched by the IARI<\/strong> which is being updated regularly.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>dynamic simulation model<\/strong> for the assessment of <strong>crop yields<\/strong>, losses due to <strong>pests,<\/strong> and the environmental impact of agroecosystems in tropical environments.<\/li>\n<li>It has the life cycle data for almost all the local varieties of 11 crops: paddy, wheat, maize, sorghum, pearl millet, pigeon pea, chickpea, soybean, groundnut, potato and cotton.<\/li>\n<li>It provides daily and summary outputs on various growth and yield parameters, nitrogen uptake, greenhouse gas emissions, soil water and nitrogen balance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>InfoCrop version 2.1,<\/strong> India\u2019s only dynamic crop simulation model developed and released by the IARI in 2015 to study the <strong>long-term impact of climate change<\/strong> and crop management practices on yield.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is a simulation?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A simulation imitates the operation of real world processes or systems with the use of models. The model represents the key behaviours and characteristics of the selected process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/science-technology\/as-a-heatwave-spectre-hangs-again-over-india-s-wheat-harvest-its-home-grown-crop-simulation-model-can-help-85499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>As a heatwave spectre hangs again over India\u2019s wheat harvest, its home-grown crop simulation model can help<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, InfoCrop version 1 was launched by the IARI which is being updated regularly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}