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Towards an efficient and risk aware strategy for guiding farmers in identifying best crop management

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Identification of best performing fertilizer practices among a set of contrasting practices with field trials is challenging as crop losses are costly for farmers. To identify best management practices, an "intuitive strategy" would be to set multi-year field trials with equal proportion of each practice to test. Our objective was to provide an identification strategy using a bandit algorithm that was better at minimizing farmers' losses occurring during the identification, compared with the "intuitive strategy". We used a modification of the Decision Support Systems for Agro-Technological Transfer (DSSAT) crop model to mimic field trial responses, with a case-study in Southern Mali. We compared fertilizer practices using a risk-aware measure, the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR), and a novel agronomic metric, the Yield Excess (YE). YE accounts for both grain yield and agronomic nitrogen use efficiency. The bandit-algorithm performed better than the intuitive strategy: it increased, in most cases, farmers' protection against worst outcomes. This study is a methodological step which opens up new horizons for risk-aware ensemble identification of the performance of contrasting crop management practices in real conditions.
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cirad-03806634 , version 1 (07-10-2022)

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Romain Gautron, Dorian Baudry, Myriam Adam, Gatien N Falconnier, Marc Corbeels. Towards an efficient and risk aware strategy for guiding farmers in identifying best crop management. 2022. ⟨cirad-03806634⟩
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