CSIR SOIL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Information generation and dissemination is critical for national and regional developments in modern times. The country-wide digital soil mapping undertaken by the Soil Research Institute (SRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana holds georeferenced legacy soil profile records of Ghana and data of soil physico-chemical properties, that have been inventorized and compiled from a wide array of data sources including legacy data and detailed field surveys across the length and breadth of the country. The compilation of the soil information (chemical data, physical data, Soil maps, suitability maps, fertility maps) was done from available regional soil survey or detailed reconnaissance soil survey maps at the scale of 1:250,000. The compiled soil information covers nearly the entire country of Ghana, and serves as base maps, supported by 1:50,000 topographical maps sourced from the Survey and Mapping Department of Ghana.