“…Although models cannot be used instead of experimental investigation, however the main advantage of the crop modelling is time and cost saving (García-Gutiérrez et al, 2021). In this context, various crop growth models have been developed including DSSAT, CropSyst, CROPWAT, FAO, APSIM and EPIC (Jones et al, 2003;Keating et al, 2003;Stockle et al, 2003;Maniruzzaman et al, 2015;Carlson et al, 2016;Jones et al, 2017;Razzaghi et al, 2017;Holzworth et al, 2018;Anar et al, 2019;Xu et al, 2019;Biswal et al, 2021). In general, these models analyse the results of the agricultural experimental data to simulate crop development, growth, yield, water and nutrient uptake in different agro-ecological environments (Pohanková et al, 2018).…”