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The National Irrigation Board (NIB) has put 21,170 hectares in seven of its public national irrigation schemes under production since its inception 49 years ago. More than 14,000 hectares, however, remain underutilised.
A total of 161,840 hectares of land is under irrigation in Kenya, most of it through furrows on private farms in places like West Pokot, Marakwet and Turkana, according to 2013 records provided by NIB.
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