Exploring Niches of Medium-Season Grain Sorghums in Dryland Areas of Nigeria - Coping Strategies with Impacts of Climate Variability

TY - CONF

T1 - Exploring Niches of Medium-Season Grain Sorghums in Dryland Areas of Nigeria - Coping Strategies with Impacts of Climate Variability

AU - Akinseye, Folorunso M.

AU - Ajeigbe, Hakeem Ayinde

AU - Angarawai, Ignatius I.

AU - Tabo, Ramdjita

AU - Kunihya, Ayuba

AU - Abdulazeez, Tukur

PY - 2018/4/12

Y1 - 2018/4/12

N2 - Climate variability constitutes a major risk to agricultural production in West Africa drylands posing challenges to the livelihood of smallholder farmers. Sorghum crop, which displays a great diversity in growth, development and resource use efficiency has the potential to improve productivity of resilient farming system. However, to better understand plant growth and development in response to the environment there is need for applicable models for Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM) framework (Keating et al., 2003; Holzworth et al., 2014). The application of well-calibrated crop growth models, could help to estimate their production potential in different sites and soil conditions, as well as the impact of different management interventions (Akinseye et al.,2017). This would further allow us to better assess the interaction of phenology with patterns of water use and WUE, a great interest to develop crop adaptation strategies in terms of combating climate variability.

AB - Climate variability constitutes a major risk to agricultural production in West Africa drylands posing challenges to the livelihood of smallholder farmers. Sorghum crop, which displays a great diversity in growth, development and resource use efficiency has the potential to improve productivity of resilient farming system. However, to better understand plant growth and development in response to the environment there is need for applicable models for Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM) framework (Keating et al., 2003; Holzworth et al., 2014). The application of well-calibrated crop growth models, could help to estimate their production potential in different sites and soil conditions, as well as the impact of different management interventions (Akinseye et al.,2017). This would further allow us to better assess the interaction of phenology with patterns of water use and WUE, a great interest to develop crop adaptation strategies in terms of combating climate variability.

M3 - Poster

T2 - Sorghum in the 21st Century

Y2 - 9 April 2018 through 12 April 2018

ER -