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.