Stacked Ensemble Learning for Global Crop Yield Prediction: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Techniques
摘要
Precise crop yield estimation is crucial for food security and effective agricultural planning. The research here suggests a machine learning method in the form of a stacking ensemble model with base learners Random Forest, XGBoost, and CatBoost, and Ridge Regression as the final learner. A global dataset containing climate information, agricultural information, and economic information was preprocessed with common scaling and one-hot encoding and split 80:20 into training and testing. The ensemble performed better than all of the individual models with an RMSE of 9309.04, MAE of 3576.41, and \(\hbox {R}^{2}\) of 0.9881. The outcomes demonstrate the efficiency of stacking models in enhancing prediction accuracy and facilitating data-driven agriculture.