PermVeg: A generic tool to design and assess crop rotations for permanent vegetable production systems.

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    General
    Name
    PermVeg
    Program type
    Design and assess alternative vegetable rotations.
    Available since
    Description
    As part of the Permveg Work package an easy to use software package has been developed to design and assess alternative vegetable rotations. The model combines vegetable crops to generate all possible crop rotations for a given period, based on a number of explicit criteria (objectives and restrictions) controlled by the user. The criteria eliminate in early stages those crop rotations that are undesirable. The criteria relate among others to the most important socio-economic and environmental factors in vegetable production, i.e. profitability, labour requirements and costs of pesticide use.
    Scale of application
    field
    Spatial resolution
    Field
    Key outputs
    The model combines vegetable crops to generate all possible crop rotations for a given period, based on a number of explicit criteria.
    Time horizon
    daily
    Time step of modeling
    year
    Required to run
    None
    Required to develop
    None
    Database I/O
    Export to csv-file
    Examples
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jac.12074
    Applications & Use
    Generic tool to design and assess crop rotations for permanent vegetable production systems.
    Author(s)
    Mr. Herman de Putter, Mr. Witono Adiyoga,Huib.Hengsdijk, P. T. T. Huong
    Address
    WUR, Plant Production Systems, P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, The Netherlands
    Website
    http://www.vegimpact.com/en