electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-agriculture-and-nutrition-data-average-yield-for-major-cro-fe0bdb1c

Agriculture and Nutrition Data, Average Yield For Major Crops | Africa (Ghana official open data)

18 rows - 1 Africa country - 2006 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Ghana as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Agriculture and Nutrition Data, Average Yield For Major Crops
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• Resource: Average Yield for Major Crops in the Northern Region_2006
• Format: CSV
• License: Open Data Commons Open Database License
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
GHA	18	2006	2006	Ghana

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	59eb500c-6554-46da-9aa5-09962df1500c:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country name.	Ghana
year	Int64	Observation year.	2006
district	string	Source column.	Central Gonja
maize	float64	Source column.	1.12
rice	float64	Source column.	2.1
millet	float64	Source column.	0.72
sorghum	float64	Source column.	0.87
cassava	float64	Source column.	10.28
yam	float64	Source column.	11.2
g_nuts	float64	Source column.	0.79
cowpea	float64	Source column.	1.08
soyabean	string	Source column.	0.70
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2006
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2006
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2006
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Official government open data portal
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Agriculture and Nutrition Data, Average Yield For Major Crops
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Average Yield for Major Crops in the Northern Region_2006
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	ee8e4c3b-580c-40a0-b59e-d0df9c792657
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	59eb500c-6554-46da-9aa5-09962df1500c
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/harvest_resources/AVERAGE%2520YIE
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	odc-odbl
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-18T20:11:31Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-agriculture-and-nutrition-data-average-yield-for-major-cro-fe0bdb1c")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "GHA"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_ghana_agriculture_and_nutrition_data_average_yield_for_major_cro_fe0bdb1c_2006,
  title        = {Agriculture and Nutrition Data, Average Yield For Major Crops | Africa (Ghana official open data)},
  author       = {Official government open data portal},
  year         = {2006},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/agriculture-and-nutrition-data-average-yield-major-crops},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-agriculture-and-nutrition-data-average-yield-for-major-cro-fe0bdb1c}}
}

License

Released under Open Data Commons Open Database License.

Original data (c) Official government open data portal. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-07-18 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/harvest_resources/AVERAGE%2520YIELD%2520OF%2520MAJOR%2520CROPS%2520IN%2520THE%2520NORTHERN%2520REGION%2520-%25202006.csv