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(Jones et al., 2003). The crop model is equipped with its own soil hydrology module that interacts with the crop component that simulates plant’s phenology, morphology and yield. Crop models are generally designed to run continuously from sowing until maturity or harvest – unless the crop fails due to extreme stress. However, to incorporate DSSAT in the modeling framework (Fig. 3), it is customized to stop when desired and restarts from that point in time (Ines et al., 2013; Das et al., 2011b). For this work, we will focus on three major crop modules (maize, wheat, rice) because of their economic values and being major crops for the world. These crops are cultivated in ~50% of the total cultivated land and 60% of total agricultural production (Leff et al., 2004; and Ramankutty and Foley, 1998). In particular, maize, wheat, and rice are dominant over more than two thirds of the croplands of the