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9,199 kg/ha maize yield simulated, water balance closes to within rounding noise
ProblemFarmers around Zaria need to know not just how much to irrigate, but what that irrigation actually produces at harvest, and existing tools stop at the water schedule without connecting it through to a genuine, physically grounded yield estimate.
SolutionA single desktop application that runs ten ET equations, a soil-water balance, an irrigation scheduler, and a 4-step crop-growth engine together, so canopy development, transpiration, biomass, and final yield all trace back to this farm's own simulated water supply.
ImpactFor a 1-hectare maize simulation: 9,199 kg/ha of final yield (48% harvest index of 19,164 kg/ha total biomass), with the underlying water balance verified closed to within rounding noise across all 5 crops.
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