Certification ceremony of Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) training course

On April 29, 2021, Vietnam Academy for Water Resources (VAWR) in collaboration with the Asian Disaster Prevention Center (ADPC) held a certificate awarding ceremony for the crop growth and decision support system (DSSAT) training course.

The training course is organized to guide how to use advanced DSSAT software to build models for crop (rice) yield forecasting and after this training, there will be 02 continuing training courses follow will be organized with the same intensive form to use, apply DSSAT software for the registered experimental research area.

Attending the opening ceremony were Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Hung - Deputy Head of the General Planning Department, Dr. Nguyen Hanh Quyen - Coordinator of the ADPC and learners from units under the VAWR, Institute of Water Resources Planning, Institute for Agricultural Environment.

The certificate awarding ceremony took place in a solemn and cozy atmosphere. At the ceremony, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Hung - Deputy Head of the General Planning Department thanked the ADPC for collaborating with VAWR to organize the training course and thanked Prof. Dillip Kumar Swain - Faculty of Agricultural and Food Engineering Kharagpur Institute of Technology - India has imparted a lot of knowledge and experience in using DSSAT software to the students. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Hung hopes that VAWR will continue to cooperate and accompany ADPC in the next training courses in the future.