{
  "status": "research extraction; NOT executable calibrated crop file",
  "site": {
    "name": "ICRISAT Sahelian Centre, Sadore, Niger",
    "latitude": 13.25,
    "longitude": 2.283333333,
    "elevation_m": 240
  },
  "cultivar": "CIVT (Composite Inter-Varietal de Tarna)",
  "source": "https://oar.icrisat.org/6294/1/EJA_32_2_144-154_2010.pdf",
  "experiments": {
    "1994": {
      "sowing_date": "1994-06-06",
      "hills_ha": 12500,
      "plants_hill_after_thinning": 2,
      "plants_ha": 25000,
      "harvest_dates": [
        "1994-09-20",
        "1994-09-23"
      ]
    },
    "1995": {
      "sowing_date": "1995-06-20",
      "hills_ha": 10000,
      "plants_hill_after_thinning": 3,
      "plants_ha": 30000,
      "harvest_dates": [
        "1995-09-26",
        "1995-09-27"
      ]
    },
    "2005_calibration": {
      "sowing_dates": [
        "2005-04-19",
        "2005-05-19",
        "2005-06-18",
        "2005-07-19"
      ],
      "water": "irrigation during dry spells",
      "nutrition": "optimum conditions reported"
    }
  },
  "long_term_2010_scenario": {
    "plants_ha": 30000,
    "years": [
      1983,
      2005
    ]
  },
  "do_not_merge_with_2011_fakara_scenario": {
    "plants_ha": 15000,
    "source": "https://oar.icrisat.org/10557/1/akponikp2011.pdf"
  },
  "missing": [
    "daily observed phenology and leaf area/canopy data for calibration",
    "actual sowing depth",
    "maximum root depth and root-growth trajectory",
    "initial soil moisture for each experiment",
    "Ksat: cannot derive uniquely from SWCON",
    "AquaCrop canopy growth/decline, CCx, WP, HI0, stress functions",
    "WOFOST thermal response and TSUM1/2 calibration, assimilation, SLA, partitioning, senescence, rooting and stress parameters"
  ],
  "conflicts": [
    "bare curve number40 in Table1 versus50 in section2.3.1"
  ],
  "notes": [
    "Nominal approximate95-day cultivar maturity is not observed harvest date.",
    "Soil LL15 differs from crop LL0.044. Preserve both; no silent substitution.",
    "DUL calibrated in APSIM; SAT calculated rather than directly measured.",
    "Current application water-limited engines do not simulate the N/P treatment responses of this study."
  ]
}