Beet: Pest Management Simulation for a Sugar Beet Crop
- Synopsis
- A pest and disease management game, in which players manage a farm fo 120 ha for 15 years. It uses sugar beet as a case study to teach the diseases of a specific crop and explore its pest management strategy, and also to give a wider understanding of the value of information and to experience and practise decision making in a stochastic environment. Approximately 10 hours of teaching material.
- Series
- Mertal Courseware
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Multimedia; Computer program. Floppy disk. PC Windows version only.
- Year of production
- 1995
- Availability
- Sale; 1996 sale: £30.00 (inclusive)
- Notes
- Available to UK higher education institutions.
- Documentation
- Accompanying print material.
- Uses
- Courses in crop protection and crop biology.
- Subjects
- Agriculture; Environmental science
- Keywords
- computer-assisted learning; crop management; crops; sugar beet; Teaching & Learning Technology Programme
Distribution Formats
- Type
- CD-ROM
Distributor
- Name
University of Aberdeen, Centre for CBL in Land Use and Environmental Sciences (CLUES)
- clues@abdn.ac.uk
- Web
- http://www.clues/abdn.ac.uk:8080/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01224 273755
- Address
- King’s College
Aberdeen
AB24 5UA - Notes
- Contact: John Milne (for LUCIE progject (7/97)
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