Sowing rules for estimating rainfed yield potential of sorghum and maize in Burkina Faso

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 214-215, Issue , 2015, Pages 208-218

  Wolf, J ^a   Ouattara, K ^b   Supit, I ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT DE L ENVIRONNEMENT ET DE RECHERCHES AGRICOLES INERA   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

Crop modelling; Maize; Sorghum; Sowing; WOFOST; Yield potential

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CROP YIELD; EXPERT SYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; MAIZE; RAINFALL; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SORGHUM; SOWING;

BURKINA FASO;

SORGHUM BICOLOR; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84940644675     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.08.262     Document Type: Article

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