More than 30 participants, including mid-level managers, professionals and researchers in water and agriculture, met in Beijing for five days to be trained in the practical applications of AquaCrop, a new crop-water productivity model recently developed by FAO, which focuses on simulating the attainable yield in response to water, which is the key driver for agricultural production. Eleven female and twenty male representatives from institutions from India, PDR Laos, DPR Korea, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Nepal, and the host country China attended the training workshop.
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