F. Affholder et al., AGROCLIMATIC MODEL FOR EVALUATION OF MAIZ E BEHAVIOR IN THE CERRADO REGION, Pesquisa agropecuaria brasileira, 32(10), 1997, pp. 993-1002
A study was performed to describe, calibrate and validate a model to e
stimate the potential yield of the maize crop in the Cerrado region of
Brazil. The model is based on meteorological (precipitation and evapo
transpiration) and soil (variation in the water stock) parameters and
considers the transpiration the most important determinant of the yiel
d potential. The model combines a water balance sub-model and a simpli
fied empirical function that relates the water balance variables with
the crop yield. It was observed a good relation (r(2) = 0,78) between
the simulated and the measured values of the water stock variation, as
well as a good relation between the simulated and measured yield.