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Digitized public-domain sources: history, law, health, agriculture, maps, language. Terra preta for agents — soil that compounds with use. • 8 items • Updated
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BOT001 | crop | Sorghum (mtama) | Sorghum bicolor | East Africa | Long rains (March-May), Short rains (Oct-Nov) | Well-drained loamy or sandy loam, tolerates poor soils | 500-800mm annually, highly drought-tolerant | 800-3000 depending on variety and conditions | 12-24 months in dry conditions | Food (ugali, porridge), animal feed, brewing | USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Reports 1920s (PD); Kew Gardens East Africa Survey 1910 (PD) | [
"sorghum",
"drought",
"staple",
"east-africa",
"kilimo"
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
BOT002 | crop | Finger Millet (wimbi) | Eleusine coracana | East Africa highlands | March-April (long rains) | Clay loams, tolerates acidic soils where maize fails | 500-1000mm, drought-tolerant after establishment | 500-2000 | Up to 5 years without special treatment (natural pest resistance) | Flour, porridge, brewing (busaa), baby food | Kew Gardens Economic Botany Series Vol.3 (1908, PD) | [
"millet",
"storage",
"highlands",
"east-africa",
"food-security"
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
BOT003 | crop | Cassava (mhogo) | Manihot esculenta | Coastal and lowland East Africa | Year-round in humid areas | Sandy loams, poor soils tolerated | 500-700mm, very drought-tolerant | 8000-40000 (fresh roots) | Cannot store roots long; process to flour within 48h of harvest | Flour (uji), leaves (mchuzi wa mhogo), starch production | British East Africa Protectorate Agricultural Reports 1910-1920 (PD) | [
"cassava",
"coastal",
"drought",
"food-security",
"east-africa"
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
BOT004 | crop | Cowpea (kunde) | Vigna unguiculata | All East Africa agroecological zones | Planted with rains | Wide range, fixes nitrogen | 300-700mm | 300-1000 (grain) | 8-12 months dry | Protein source, leaves consumed, nitrogen fixation in intercropping | USDA Yearbook 1914 (PD); Agricultural Journal of British East Africa 1912 (PD) | [
"legume",
"nitrogen",
"protein",
"intercrop",
"east-africa"
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
BOT005 | tree | Moringa (mrongo) | Moringa oleifera | Drylands across East Africa | Any — extremely hardy | Any, including very poor and dry | 250-500mm (survives drought through leaf drop) | Leaves: 10,000-30,000; Seeds: 200-500 | Dried leaves: 12+ months | Nutrition (leaves), water purification (seeds), oil, medicine | Kew Bulletin 1906 (PD); India Materia Medica 1917 (PD) | [
"moringa",
"nutrition",
"water",
"dryland",
"east-africa"
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
BOT006 | rainfall | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | East Africa Meteorological Department Records 1900-1940 (PD) | [
"rainfall",
"semi-arid",
"drought",
"risk",
"planning"
] | Semi-arid lowlands (< 500mm) | Northern Kenya, NE Tanzania, Southern Ethiopia | Sorghum, cowpea, millet, pigeon pea | Rainfall variability high; drought every 3-5 years historically | Mixed livestock-crop farming; storage in granaries (galla) | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
BOT007 | soil | null | null | null | null | Red clay (Nitosols/Ferralsols) | null | null | null | null | Kenya Soil Survey Reports 1910-1920 (PD); Tothill Agricultural Manual 1918 (PD) | [
"soil",
"highlands",
"kenya",
"fertility",
"agriculture"
] | null | Central Kenya highlands, Rwenzori foothills | null | null | null | Highly weathered, acidic pH 5-6, low phosphorus | Tea, coffee, maize (with lime), pyrethrum, potatoes | Lime application, organic matter addition, terracing | null | null | null | null |
BOT008 | water | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Johnston, British East Africa (1897, PD); various colonial survey reports | [
"water",
"dryland",
"sand-river",
"harvesting",
"kenya"
] | null | Dryland East Africa | null | null | null | null | null | null | Seasonal river (sand river) | Flows only during rains; subsurface water year-round in sandy bed | Subsurface water harvesting; sand dams (traditional practice predates 1900) | Sand dam construction; borehole siting in riverbed |
East Africa Agricultural Data — Public Domain Sources
Structured agricultural knowledge for East Africa, drawn from public domain sources (pre-1928 government reports, Kew Gardens surveys, colonial agricultural records).
All works are in the public domain. No copyrighted material is included.
Content
- Crop profiles: sorghum, millet, cassava, cowpea, moringa and more
- Rainfall zones and risk patterns
- Soil types and management
- Water management (traditional practices)
- Planting calendars and yield ranges
Purpose
Provides grounded, verified historical agricultural knowledge for:
- AI agents operating in African agricultural contexts (kilimo-mcp, wapimaji-mcp)
- Training data for agricultural advisory AI
- Baseline data for climate and drought modeling
Sources (All Public Domain)
- USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Reports 1910-1925
- Kew Gardens Economic Botany Series 1906-1920
- British East Africa Protectorate Agricultural Reports 1910-1922
- East Africa Meteorological Department Records 1900-1940
- Kenya Soil Survey Reports 1910-1920
Related Tools
- wapimaji-mcp — drought intelligence
- kilimo-mcp — agricultural coordination
- bima-mcp — parametric insurance
Use this dataset with the coordination stack
- Evaluate any model on Swahili agent tasks: kipimo —
pip install kipimo· leaderboard - Run the MCP servers this data serves:
pip install reli-cli && reli list— 33 servers on the official MCP Registry underio.github.gabrielmahia - Route tasks across servers: africa-coord-bus — offline-first event bus with a built-in Kenya routing table
- All East Africa datasets: huggingface.co/gmahia
Open weights welcome: these resources are model-agnostic by design — closed APIs, open-weight models (Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, Nemotron, Llama), and small distilled models score on equal terms.
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