electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-632d25e1

Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture | Africa (Mauritius official open data)

54 rows - 1 Africa country - 2019 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

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

About the source

• Source: Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture
• Publisher: MDPA
• Resource: Harvested-Area-in-Protected-Cultures-Soil-Culture.csv
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MUS	54	2019	2019	Mauritius

Indicators or Resource Contents

• harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-january-1a744651 - Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - january
• harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-february-477dd267 - Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - february
• harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-march-9979d4a8 - Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - march
• harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-april-f8d786e1 - Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - april
• harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-may-69423aca - Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - may
• harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-june-3ce959ee - Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - june
• harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-july-e62ca0a0 - Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - july
• harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-august-b6db986c - Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - august
• harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-september-b1fa3fd7 - Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - september
• harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-october-4c04b357 - Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - october
• harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-november-7fa6a01c - Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - november
• harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-december-fb688429 - Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - december

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	object	Stable indicator identifier.	harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-january-1a744651
indicator_name	object	Human-readable indicator name.	Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture - january
country_iso3	object	ISO3 country code.	MUS
country_name	object	Country name.	Mauritius
year	Int64	Observation year.	2019
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	0.07
unit	object	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_category_food_crops	string	Source dimension.	Cucumber
dimension_sub_category_food_crops	string	Source dimension.	``
source_provider	object	Publishing organization.	MDPA
source_dataset	object	Source package title.	Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture
source_resource	object	Source resource title.	Harvested-Area-in-Protected-Cultures-Soil-Culture.csv
source_package_id	object	CKAN package UUID.	30719ed3-e828-4263-85b6-8b97b0970093
source_resource_id	object	CKAN resource UUID.	9c2acfb4-fd55-48f5-b423-6779a59e47ca
source_url	object	Original CSV URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/30719ed3-e828-4263-85b6-8b97b0970093/reso
license_id	object	Source license identifier.	CC-BY-SA-4.0
retrieved_at	object	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-16T19:23:24Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-632d25e1")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MUS"]

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_mauritius_harvested_area_in_protected_cultures_soil_culture_632d25e1_2019,
  title        = {Harvested Area in Protected Cultures – Soil Culture | Africa (Mauritius official open data)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2019},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/harvested-area-protected-cultures-soil-culture},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture-632d25e1}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Original data (c) MDPA. 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 2026-07-16 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.govmu.org/dataset/30719ed3-e828-4263-85b6-8b97b0970093/resource/9c2acfb4-fd55-48f5-b423-6779a59e47ca/download/harvested-area-in-protected-cultures-soil-culture.csv