29 smallholder cocoa agroforestry plots in Ghana's Juaboso District provide field and laboratory data. The dataset includes a Soil Chemical Quality Index, 12 soil properties, shade tree species abundance, cocoa yield, canopy cover, and farm management covariates. Data were collected by George Ashiagbor and are sufficient to replicate the associated manuscript's statistical analyses.
Use Cases
- Modeling cocoa yield based on soil chemical properties and management practices.
- Analyzing the relationship between shade tree diversity and crop productivity.
- Constructing composite soil quality indices using expert-derived weights for 12 parameters.
- Studying the impact of pruning, pesticide, and fertilizer use on smallholder farm outputs.
Strengths
- Data from 29 distinct field plots provides a basis for statistical analysis.
- Includes five integrated components: soil chemistry, tree diversity, yield, canopy cover, and management covariates.
- Associated manuscript provides context, and the data are described as sufficient for replication.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Two plots were excluded from regression analyses and one from diversity analyses, reducing sample size for specific analyses.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse, author George Ashiagbor.
- Collection Method
- Field and laboratory data collected from smallholder plots.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-22 10:30:55; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Juaboso District, Western North Region, Ghana.