1. General Model Information
Name: Agricultural Planning Toolkit
Acronym: APT
Main medium: terrestrial
Main subject: biogeochemistry
Organization level: ecosystem
Type of model: not specified
Main application: education
Keywords: agricultural planning, students, climate data, yield, crop modelling, agro-ecological zones, land evaluation, planning tool, program shell, educational
Contact:
c/o Chief AGLS
FAO
Land and Water Development Division
Via Delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome
Phone:
Fax :
email:
Author(s):
Abstract:
Shell giving students access to a number of software packages for use in agricultural planning. Some of the
packages are integrated and can also accessed via DATAEASE. APT compromises the following modules:
Climate Data Analysis, Estimation of Biomass Yield, Crop Modelling System (water requirements for irrigation
and yield assessment), Agro-Ecological Zones, Productivity and Population Potential and Land Evaluation.
Author of the abstract:
Centre for Computer-based Learning in Land Use and Environmental
Sciences (CLUES)
II. Technical Information
II.1 Executables:
Operating System(s): IBM PC, MS-DOS, CGA graphics Executables are available free (see contact address)
II.2 Source-code:
Programming Language(s):
II.3 Manuals:
II.4 Data:
III. Mathematical Information
III.1 Mathematics
III.2 Quantities
III.2.1 Input
III.2.2 Output
IV. References
V. Further information in the World-Wide-Web
VI. Additional remarks
Last review of this document by: 5.5. 1997 -
Status of the document:
last modified by
Tobias Gabele Wed Aug 21 21:44:39 CEST 2002