An experiment was conducted to study crop growth modeling at the paddy field of ICAR- Indian Institute of Water Management during Kharif 2016. The CERES-Rice model of DSSAT was used to simulate crop growth and yield; Validation results showed that model predicted number of days to flowering with the RMSE values of . Four days difference was recorded between observed and simulated days to flowering in different varieties. | Simulation of crop growth and productivity using simulation model for short duration rice
