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Entering and importing weather and crop data.
After a network has been created, crop data can be entered by hand. In principle this is possible for grid-based networks and station networks alike. However as grid-based networks do not coincide with a ground network, it will usually not make sense to enter data manually.
Entering weather data manually
As the FAO water balance model is usually run with a 10-day (dekadal) time step, this example will show how to enter dekadal data.
Activate the Database - Manage Weather Data - Dekad function. In this example data for Bangladesh are entered. 
In this window the grid is defined. At first select the polygons in the top box and select them with the down-arrow. Then specify the grid density. In this case 0.,5 degrees is chosen. Press <Redraw> to see the result. This means that a square grid will be created where stations are half a degree apart. Please note that the program predicts the creation of 1343 stations. Specify a list name to be generated and prefixes for the station names and ID’s in order to clearly distinguish the stations in the list. 
After pressing the <Generate>, the list is filled and finally shown in the AgrometShell list editor. 
